Transparency and disclosure: AI obligations

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Legal requirement Transparency and disclosure California (United States)

Frontier developers must publish a transparency report before deploying a new frontier model

California SB 53 · Business and Professions Code Section 22757.12 (as added by SB 53)

Before or at the time a frontier developer deploys a new frontier model, or a substantially modified version, it must publish a transparency report on its website describing the model, its intended uses and restrictions, the release date and modalities, and how to contact the developer. A large frontier developer must add a summary of its catastrophic-risk assessment for the model, the results, any third-party evaluators involved and the steps taken under its frontier AI framework, with trade-secret and security redactions explained.

Verified 26 Sep 2026 Applies from 1 Jan 2026

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