California Business and Professions Code

§ 22601

BPC § 22601 Effective Jan 1, 2026Div. 8 · Ch. 22.6

Statute text

As used in this chapter:

(a)“Artificial intelligence” means an engineered or machine-based system that varies in its level of autonomy and that can, for explicit or implicit objectives, infer from the input it receives how to generate outputs that can influence physical or virtual environments.

(b)(1) “Companion chatbot” means an artificial intelligence system with a natural language interface that provides adaptive, human-like responses to user inputs and is capable of meeting a user’s social needs, including by exhibiting anthropomorphic features and being able to sustain a relationship across multiple interactions.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 677, Sec. 1. (SB 243) Effective January 1, 2026.