California AI Transparency Act: Compliance Checklist

Compliance checklist

Run through these items to scope your obligations under California AI Transparency Act. Not legal advice; verify with counsel before acting.

1. Confirm scope: does the law apply to your operations? See Who Must Comply or use the Compliance Checker.
2. Inventory in-scope AI systems and classify them by role (developer/deployer) and decision type.
3. Address each obligation:
   • transparency — Maintain a free, publicly available AI detection tool allowing users to assess whether content is generated or modified by the covered provider's AI system.Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.x
   • transparency — Apply latent disclosures (e.g., watermarking or provenance metadata) to AI-generated image, video, and audio content produced by the covered provider's system.Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.x
4. Adopt a federal control framework: NIST AI RMF or ISO/IEC 42001 to demonstrate due care.
5. Document evidence of compliance for each obligation, refreshed at the cadence the law requires.
6. Build the AG-notification path if the law requires it (Colorado, California SB 53).
7. Set the refresh cadence — annual for most impact-assessment regimes; continuous for monitoring.