CA’s Ban on Algorithmic Price Fixing & More

CA Bans Algorithmic Price Fixing

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signed AB 325, making it a violation of the state’s antitrust law, the Cartwright Act, “to use or distribute a common pricing algorithm as part of a contract, combination in the form of a trust, or conspiracy to restrain trade or commerce.” California is one of eight states that joined a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit last year alleging real estate software and analytics company RealPage sold software to landlords allowing them to use a shared algorithm to set prices. (REGISTER, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)

State Lawmakers Aim to Deny Personhood Status for AI

Lawmakers in four states have introduced measures this year aimed at designating artificial intelligence systems as “nonsentient. The most recent is Ohio’s HB 469, introduced last month, which would bar AI systems from being “granted the status of person or any form of legal personhood” or being “considered to possess consciousness, self-awareness, or similar traits of living beings. (PLURIBUS NEWS, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)

—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK

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