Bill Text: CA AB2370 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Community colleges: faculty: instructor of record: qualifications.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-05 - From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 5). [AB2370 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB2370-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2370

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Introduced by Assembly Member Cervantes

February 12, 2024

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An act to add Section 87709 to the Education Code, relating to community colleges.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2370, as introduced, Cervantes. Community colleges: faculty: artificial intelligence.

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes the California Online Community College, under the administration of the board of governors, for specified purposes, and requires the college to develop a Research and Development Unit to, among other things, focus on using technology, data science, behavioral science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to build out student supports.

This bill would prohibit artificial intelligence from being used to replace community college faculty for purposes of providing academic instruction to, and regular interaction with, students in a course of instruction, and would authorize artificial intelligence to only be used as a peripheral tool to support faculty in carrying out those tasks for uses such as course development, assessment, and tutoring.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 87709 is added to the Education Code, to read:

87709.

 Artificial intelligence shall not be used to replace faculty for purposes of providing academic instruction to, and regular interaction with, students in a course of instruction, and may only be used as a peripheral tool to support faculty in carrying out those tasks for uses such as course development, assessment, and tutoring.