Grants, standards & toolkits.

Sept. 6, 2023 order directing agencies to report GenAI use cases and risks, issue procurement and equity-impact guidelines, inventory high-risk uses, create testing sandboxes and train state workers. The genai.ca.gov hub tracks state GenAI projects, reports and innovator opportunities.

Directs agencies to build an AI impact dashboard, an AI playbook for job-training programs, early-warning recommendations on labor disruption, small-business education and incentives, and WARN Act update recommendations within 180 days.

Non-mandatory guidance for the safe and effective use of AI in public schools, covering human-centered AI, AI literacy for students, educators and families, equitable access, academic integrity, and data privacy, security and procurement, developed with CDE's AI Working Group.

August 7, 2025 agreements, at no cost to the state, giving 2M+ high school, community college and CSU students and educators access to AI training and tools such as Google Prompting Essentials, Generative AI for Educators, IBM SkillsBuild credentials and Adobe AI tools.

Signed Sept. 29, 2025. Requires large frontier AI developers to publish safety frameworks, creates a channel to report critical safety incidents to Cal OES, protects whistleblowers, and establishes the CalCompute public computing consortium.

March 2024 directive requiring GenAI disclosure language in all state solicitations, consultation with CDT on GenAI purchases, and a SIMM 5305-F GenAI risk assessment (from July 1, 2024), with CDT review for moderate- and high-risk acquisitions and a GenAI inventory.