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He took the helm in June 2020 and was the last commander appointed by Newsom, leaving the position in June 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials said the vacancy hasn’t hampered the state’s ability to respond to threats, but experts outside the state government are concerned that an acting commander is spread thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPostingPrint.aspx?jcid=308394\">commander job\u003c/a> entails assisting law enforcement agencies with criminal investigations and safeguarding California’s economy and critical infrastructure. Other job duties include maintaining a security operation center that disseminates actionable information to all state entities, forming public and private partnerships, and developing state cybersecurity strategies. The commander is paid a salary of up to $187,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge of a position like cybersecurity commander is it’s not a matter of public or media interest until something goes wrong, said Dan Schnur, a former spokesperson for Gov. Pete Wilson, who now teaches political communication at the University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley. There’s no set timeline for appointments, and it depends almost entirely upon the urgency to fill the job and the quality of applicants, but in his experience, taking more than a year to appoint is an unusually long amount of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Either they’re going through a painstaking process to pick the right person, or it slipped through the cracks, and there’s no way to know which of the two it is,” he said. “Unless you find a unicorn who’s willing to forego that kind of financial compensation in exchange for public service, you’re already starting out with a compromise.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dan Schnur, professor, UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies\"]‘Either they’re going through a painstaking process to pick the right person, or it slipped through the cracks, and there’s no way to know which of the two it is.’[/pullquote]There have been four full-time commanders before the current acting commander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Tresh was appointed by former Gov. Jerry Brown and acted as commander from 2016 to 2018. He is now chief information security officer at consultancy firm AMEG. Mario Garcia served as acting commander from 2018 to 2020 and now works as state coordinator for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Jonathan Nunez was appointed by Gov. Newsom in 2020 and now works as an analyst at consultancy firm Gartner. David Lane served as acting commander for an unspecified period in 2022. Deputy Director of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.caloes.ca.gov/office-of-the-director/operations/homeland-security/\">Tom Osborne\u003c/a> is also the acting commander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tresh previously served as chief information security officer for the states of California and Idaho and was the first Cybersecurity Integration Center commander. He said he jumped at the opportunity because the job acts as a second set of eyes for public institutions like city and county governments, not just the state of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We helped school districts and regional transit authorities when they had breaches,” he said. “That’s why I think it’s absolutely a perfect position to continue on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyber attacks on public institutions like local governments, hospitals, and school districts are on the rise. Hospitals and health care providers are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/03/california-health-care-cyber-attack/\">still recovering from a ransomware attack\u003c/a> that affected payment processing for Change Healthcare, which processes roughly half of all health care claims and payments nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cybersecurity Integration Center receives reports when a school district, state agency, or private company experiences a data breach. The center also receives threat reports from federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Gov. Jerry Brown created the cybersecurity agency in 2015 to operate within the governor’s Office of Emergency Services. It works with the Department of Technology to investigate and report incidents and helps restore operations after an attack. Director Liana Bailey-Crimmins told CalMatters in an interview in February that her agency works closely with the Office of Emergency Services to address the needs of the state as they fill key positions so they never miss a step.[aside postID=news_11973657 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_0592-1020x765.jpg']A spokesperson for the governor’s Office of Emergency Services said Osborne is serving as acting commander while the governor carries out a nationwide search for a qualified candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past month, CalMatters repeatedly asked for details about data breach reports and compliance with additional duties assigned to the commander and cybersecurity integration center by a \u003ca href=\"https://cdt.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Cybersecurity_Strategy_Plan_FINAL.pdf\">five-year cybersecurity plan approved in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a> but received no comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the state compiled a report detailing the types of data breaches, the number of records compromised, and the number of Californians affected in cyber attacks was \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/dbr/2016-data-breach-report.pdf\">back in 2016 (PDF)\u003c/a> before the cybersecurity integration center existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters reached out to the office of Attorney General Rob Bonta for the latest data breach report. The attorney general’s office referred CalMatters to the cybersecurity center, which did not share new information but said it would post new data publicly later “this spring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtech.com/security/state-auditor-california-agencies-arent-adequately-protecting-sensitive-data.html\">audits found\u003c/a> that state agencies were woefully unprepared for cyber attacks, California Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/jacqui-irwin-16\">Jacqui Irwin\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Thousand Oaks, coauthored \u003ca href=\"https://trackbill.com/bill/california-assembly-bill-2813-california-cybersecurity-integration-center/1559950/\">a 2018 \u003c/a>law that made the Cybersecurity Integration Center a permanent state agency and required development of a state cybersecurity strategy. Irwin, who is also chairperson of the Assembly cybersecurity committee, told CalMatters in a statement that finding a new commander has not been easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state has struggled to recruit and retain cybersecurity specialists, just as many businesses have, with their skill set in high demand,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Competition with private sector\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former state cybersecurity employees told CalMatters they think it’s difficult for the cybersecurity center to keep commanders because the pay is less than for similar jobs in the private sector. State employees may treat an acting commander — who will be in the job temporarily — differently than a commander appointed by Newsom.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Steven Ward, cybersecurity fellow, R Street Institute\"]‘It definitely needs to be filled. It’s important that this type of work continues without interruptions.’[/pullquote]A former cybersecurity center employee who spoke to CalMatters on background for fear of professional reprisals said the biggest issue with the position is the lack of real authority; the commander has limited capacity to act and hold people accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public agencies, especially in California, are major targets for cybercriminals seeking confidential information or just want to cause panic, said Steven Ward, a cybersecurity fellow at center-right think tank R Street Institute and former digital forensics examiner for law enforcement agencies in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward said the vacancy reflects several trends: First, the cybersecurity threat landscape moves quickly, and public agencies move slowly. Second, it mirrors a larger cybersecurity workforce shortage. California has the second-highest in the U.S., according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.isc2.org/-/media/Project/ISC2/Main/Media/documents/research/ISC2-Cybersecurity-Workforce-Study.pdf?rev=ae39d66a4616478792d38da57fb80564&hash=31B8381DC81AD70B9B6DA6FF84534B33\">a 2022 report (PDF)\u003c/a> by the nonprofit International Information System Security Certification Consortium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, public agencies can’t compete with the pay and benefits offered by private companies. \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2022/08/30/cybersecurity-public-private-salary-gap\">Another 2022 study\u003c/a> found that the private sector pays 14% more than government agencies. The pay gap creates a situation in which entry-level employees guard highly sensitive systems. It’s hard to say what the consequences of the vacancy are, but since the center develops the state cybersecurity strategy and is a hub for sharing attack threat information and how to patch vulnerabilities, Ward said he’s worried that the acting director might be spread too thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It definitely needs to be filled,” he said. “It’s important that this type of work continues without interruptions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gov. Gavin Newsom has yet to appoint a commander who will inform businesses and governments of cybersecurity threats.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712880801,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1449},"headData":{"title":"'We Are a Target': California's Top Cybersecurity Job Remains Vacant | KQED","description":"Gov. 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Gavin Newsom to appoint anyone for the position of commander for the Cybersecurity Integration Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a target,” as a tech industry leader, the most populous state in the country, one of the busiest ports in the world, and the fifth largest economy in the world, said former cybersecurity integration center commander Jonathan Nunez in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNuaT3Vw0S8\">video posted to YouTube\u003c/a> two years ago. He took the helm in June 2020 and was the last commander appointed by Newsom, leaving the position in June 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials said the vacancy hasn’t hampered the state’s ability to respond to threats, but experts outside the state government are concerned that an acting commander is spread thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPostingPrint.aspx?jcid=308394\">commander job\u003c/a> entails assisting law enforcement agencies with criminal investigations and safeguarding California’s economy and critical infrastructure. Other job duties include maintaining a security operation center that disseminates actionable information to all state entities, forming public and private partnerships, and developing state cybersecurity strategies. The commander is paid a salary of up to $187,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge of a position like cybersecurity commander is it’s not a matter of public or media interest until something goes wrong, said Dan Schnur, a former spokesperson for Gov. Pete Wilson, who now teaches political communication at the University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley. There’s no set timeline for appointments, and it depends almost entirely upon the urgency to fill the job and the quality of applicants, but in his experience, taking more than a year to appoint is an unusually long amount of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Either they’re going through a painstaking process to pick the right person, or it slipped through the cracks, and there’s no way to know which of the two it is,” he said. “Unless you find a unicorn who’s willing to forego that kind of financial compensation in exchange for public service, you’re already starting out with a compromise.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Either they’re going through a painstaking process to pick the right person, or it slipped through the cracks, and there’s no way to know which of the two it is.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Dan Schnur, professor, UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There have been four full-time commanders before the current acting commander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Tresh was appointed by former Gov. Jerry Brown and acted as commander from 2016 to 2018. He is now chief information security officer at consultancy firm AMEG. Mario Garcia served as acting commander from 2018 to 2020 and now works as state coordinator for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Jonathan Nunez was appointed by Gov. Newsom in 2020 and now works as an analyst at consultancy firm Gartner. David Lane served as acting commander for an unspecified period in 2022. Deputy Director of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.caloes.ca.gov/office-of-the-director/operations/homeland-security/\">Tom Osborne\u003c/a> is also the acting commander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tresh previously served as chief information security officer for the states of California and Idaho and was the first Cybersecurity Integration Center commander. He said he jumped at the opportunity because the job acts as a second set of eyes for public institutions like city and county governments, not just the state of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We helped school districts and regional transit authorities when they had breaches,” he said. “That’s why I think it’s absolutely a perfect position to continue on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyber attacks on public institutions like local governments, hospitals, and school districts are on the rise. Hospitals and health care providers are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/03/california-health-care-cyber-attack/\">still recovering from a ransomware attack\u003c/a> that affected payment processing for Change Healthcare, which processes roughly half of all health care claims and payments nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cybersecurity Integration Center receives reports when a school district, state agency, or private company experiences a data breach. The center also receives threat reports from federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Gov. Jerry Brown created the cybersecurity agency in 2015 to operate within the governor’s Office of Emergency Services. It works with the Department of Technology to investigate and report incidents and helps restore operations after an attack. Director Liana Bailey-Crimmins told CalMatters in an interview in February that her agency works closely with the Office of Emergency Services to address the needs of the state as they fill key positions so they never miss a step.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11973657","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_0592-1020x765.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A spokesperson for the governor’s Office of Emergency Services said Osborne is serving as acting commander while the governor carries out a nationwide search for a qualified candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past month, CalMatters repeatedly asked for details about data breach reports and compliance with additional duties assigned to the commander and cybersecurity integration center by a \u003ca href=\"https://cdt.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Cybersecurity_Strategy_Plan_FINAL.pdf\">five-year cybersecurity plan approved in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a> but received no comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the state compiled a report detailing the types of data breaches, the number of records compromised, and the number of Californians affected in cyber attacks was \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/dbr/2016-data-breach-report.pdf\">back in 2016 (PDF)\u003c/a> before the cybersecurity integration center existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters reached out to the office of Attorney General Rob Bonta for the latest data breach report. The attorney general’s office referred CalMatters to the cybersecurity center, which did not share new information but said it would post new data publicly later “this spring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtech.com/security/state-auditor-california-agencies-arent-adequately-protecting-sensitive-data.html\">audits found\u003c/a> that state agencies were woefully unprepared for cyber attacks, California Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/jacqui-irwin-16\">Jacqui Irwin\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Thousand Oaks, coauthored \u003ca href=\"https://trackbill.com/bill/california-assembly-bill-2813-california-cybersecurity-integration-center/1559950/\">a 2018 \u003c/a>law that made the Cybersecurity Integration Center a permanent state agency and required development of a state cybersecurity strategy. Irwin, who is also chairperson of the Assembly cybersecurity committee, told CalMatters in a statement that finding a new commander has not been easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state has struggled to recruit and retain cybersecurity specialists, just as many businesses have, with their skill set in high demand,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Competition with private sector\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former state cybersecurity employees told CalMatters they think it’s difficult for the cybersecurity center to keep commanders because the pay is less than for similar jobs in the private sector. State employees may treat an acting commander — who will be in the job temporarily — differently than a commander appointed by Newsom.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It definitely needs to be filled. It’s important that this type of work continues without interruptions.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Steven Ward, cybersecurity fellow, R Street Institute","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A former cybersecurity center employee who spoke to CalMatters on background for fear of professional reprisals said the biggest issue with the position is the lack of real authority; the commander has limited capacity to act and hold people accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public agencies, especially in California, are major targets for cybercriminals seeking confidential information or just want to cause panic, said Steven Ward, a cybersecurity fellow at center-right think tank R Street Institute and former digital forensics examiner for law enforcement agencies in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward said the vacancy reflects several trends: First, the cybersecurity threat landscape moves quickly, and public agencies move slowly. Second, it mirrors a larger cybersecurity workforce shortage. California has the second-highest in the U.S., according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.isc2.org/-/media/Project/ISC2/Main/Media/documents/research/ISC2-Cybersecurity-Workforce-Study.pdf?rev=ae39d66a4616478792d38da57fb80564&hash=31B8381DC81AD70B9B6DA6FF84534B33\">a 2022 report (PDF)\u003c/a> by the nonprofit International Information System Security Certification Consortium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, public agencies can’t compete with the pay and benefits offered by private companies. \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2022/08/30/cybersecurity-public-private-salary-gap\">Another 2022 study\u003c/a> found that the private sector pays 14% more than government agencies. The pay gap creates a situation in which entry-level employees guard highly sensitive systems. It’s hard to say what the consequences of the vacancy are, but since the center develops the state cybersecurity strategy and is a hub for sharing attack threat information and how to patch vulnerabilities, Ward said he’s worried that the acting director might be spread too thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It definitely needs to be filled,” he said. “It’s important that this type of work continues without interruptions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11982634/we-are-a-target-californias-top-cybersecurity-job-remains-vacant","authors":["byline_news_11982634"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_29676","news_29677","news_17619","news_2414","news_4308","news_1631"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11913601","label":"news_18481"},"news_11982394":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11982394","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11982394","score":null,"sort":[1712759456000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-bill-pushes-california-to-confront-digital-discrimination","title":"New Bill Pushes California to Confront Digital Discrimination","publishDate":1712759456,"format":"standard","headTitle":"New Bill Pushes California to Confront Digital Discrimination | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Even now, in an age when most of us use the Internet,\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/06/26/california-gets-nearly-2-billion-in-federal-funding-to-boost-high-speed-internet-access/\"> one in five Californians\u003c/a> lack reliable and affordable service. Most are lower-income people of color and rural residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This afternoon in Sacramento, the Assembly Communications & Conveyance Committee\u003ca href=\"https://acom.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2024-04/agenda-4.10.24.pdf\"> takes up the latest salvo in this struggle, a bill\u003c/a> designed to chip away at this form of digital discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are living in an unjust and inequitable moment of technology, where some have and some don’t,” said Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland).[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Mia Bonta, D-Oakland, who authored AB 2239\"]‘We are living in an unjust and inequitable moment of technology, where some have and some don’t.’[/pullquote]The author of\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2239\"> AB 2239\u003c/a> said it would make California the first state in the nation to codify the Federal Communication Commission’s newly adopted definition of digital discrimination into state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that equitable access to fast, reliable and affordable Internet is a non-negotiable part of everyday life,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC’s new rules adopt a “disparate impact” standard for identifying digital discrimination, meaning broadband providers could be in violation, even if they are not intentionally withholding adequate Internet from a protected group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The disparate impact standard has long been applied in education, in housing and health care, and more. And what this bill is doing is essentially saying it also needs to be applied to broadband access,” Bonta said. “Regardless of the inputs that you have around broadband intent and the different programs that we set up if there is a disparate impact — and we know that there is — then that’s considered discrimination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Catch up fast:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“It’s not acceptable to have a California where such an essential infrastructure is not equally accessible to all Californians,” said Miguel Santana, president and CEO of the California Community Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most common criticism I’ve heard is that [AB 2239] is not necessary because there is no intention to discriminate. And that the industry has implemented a number of programs to help create access to low-income, marginalized communities,” Santana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969906/digital-advocates-say-californias-broadband-for-all-initiative-fails-to-center-equity\"> outcomes\u003c/a> speak for themselves,” he added, referencing the fact that researchers and activists say low-income Californians pay more for worse service than those in wealthy neighborhoods because there’s often no competition in poor neighborhoods to compel Internet providers to compete on service and price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982428\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/OaklandInternetMap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/OaklandInternetMap.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/OaklandInternetMap-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/OaklandInternetMap-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/OaklandInternetMap-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/OaklandInternetMap-1536x961.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Remote technology performance management company Hubble IQ partnered with Oakland Undivided to run nearly half a million speed tests across Oakland. ‘Over 75% of the Internet connections we tested never reach the speed threshold to be considered served,’ Oakland Undivided director Patrick Messac said. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hubble IQ)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The context:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandundivided.org/fixthemaps\">Oakland Undivided\u003c/a> recently partnered with remote technology performance management company, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hubbleiq.com/broadbandequity\">Hubble IQ,\u003c/a> to run nearly half a million speed tests across Oakland.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Patrick Messac, director, Oakland Undivided\"]‘The facts of the digital divide in California are stark. Race and income are the best predictors of whether you have access to the Internet in your neighborhood, how reliable it is and what you pay for it.’[/pullquote]“Over 75% of the Internet connections we tested never reach the speed threshold to be considered served,” said Oakland Undivided director Patrick Messac. “The facts of the digital divide in California are stark. Race and income are the best predictors of whether you have access to the Internet in your neighborhood, how reliable it is and what you pay for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The big picture:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“In many cases, I would say that discrimination is often not per se the intent. Maximizing profit and delivering value to shareholders is the intent,” Tracy Rosenberg of \u003ca href=\"https://media-alliance.org/2024/03/protecting-digital-discrimination-rules-in-the-8th-circuit/\">Media Alliance wrote\u003c/a>. The advocacy group is a party to the 8th Circuit proceeding where the FCC’s rules, which AB 2239 aims to align with at the state level, are being challenged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of history, market conditions and existing societal divides, the intent of maximizing shareholder value leads inexorably to actions that exacerbate digital inequity,” Rosenberg added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The opposing view:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Contacted for comment, a spokeswoman for Charter Communications’ company, \u003ca href=\"https://policy.charter.com/charter-california-fact-sheet.pdf\">Spectrum\u003c/a>, responded that it is still reviewing the legislation but that “Spectrum Internet plans, download speeds and regular prices are not only exactly the same in \u003cem>every\u003c/em> ZIP code we serve in California but also across our entire 41-state service area.”[aside postID=news_11954197 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-WiFi-Illo-AV-KQED-1020x765.jpg']AT&T, another major player in the state, referred KQED to Cal Chamber, which lobbies on behalf of the broadband industry. In a \u003ca href=\"https://ct3.blob.core.windows.net/23blobs/a72cc815-68b6-4ff2-9a4c-2922f3666233\">letter\u003c/a> to the Assembly Communications & Conveyance Committee, which is hearing AB 2239 on Tuesday, Cal Chamber argued, “We do not want to repeat the FCC’s mistakes in California, which would risk provoking costly litigation and delaying the deployment,” of ongoing universal connectivity programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The bottom line:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This early in the legislative session, it’s hard to anticipate whether the bill will survive or how its language might be changed in the coming months to mollify industry-backed critics or forestall lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bonta said that if her bill becomes law, California will send a clear signal to the rest of the country to consider Internet connectivity as a social justice issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Over decades, the California Legislature has struggled to combat digital discrimination. 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Most are lower-income people of color and rural residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This afternoon in Sacramento, the Assembly Communications & Conveyance Committee\u003ca href=\"https://acom.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2024-04/agenda-4.10.24.pdf\"> takes up the latest salvo in this struggle, a bill\u003c/a> designed to chip away at this form of digital discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are living in an unjust and inequitable moment of technology, where some have and some don’t,” said Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland).\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We are living in an unjust and inequitable moment of technology, where some have and some don’t.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Assemblymember Mia Bonta, D-Oakland, who authored AB 2239","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The author of\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2239\"> AB 2239\u003c/a> said it would make California the first state in the nation to codify the Federal Communication Commission’s newly adopted definition of digital discrimination into state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that equitable access to fast, reliable and affordable Internet is a non-negotiable part of everyday life,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC’s new rules adopt a “disparate impact” standard for identifying digital discrimination, meaning broadband providers could be in violation, even if they are not intentionally withholding adequate Internet from a protected group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The disparate impact standard has long been applied in education, in housing and health care, and more. And what this bill is doing is essentially saying it also needs to be applied to broadband access,” Bonta said. “Regardless of the inputs that you have around broadband intent and the different programs that we set up if there is a disparate impact — and we know that there is — then that’s considered discrimination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Catch up fast:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“It’s not acceptable to have a California where such an essential infrastructure is not equally accessible to all Californians,” said Miguel Santana, president and CEO of the California Community Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most common criticism I’ve heard is that [AB 2239] is not necessary because there is no intention to discriminate. And that the industry has implemented a number of programs to help create access to low-income, marginalized communities,” Santana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969906/digital-advocates-say-californias-broadband-for-all-initiative-fails-to-center-equity\"> outcomes\u003c/a> speak for themselves,” he added, referencing the fact that researchers and activists say low-income Californians pay more for worse service than those in wealthy neighborhoods because there’s often no competition in poor neighborhoods to compel Internet providers to compete on service and price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982428\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/OaklandInternetMap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/OaklandInternetMap.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/OaklandInternetMap-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/OaklandInternetMap-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/OaklandInternetMap-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/OaklandInternetMap-1536x961.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Remote technology performance management company Hubble IQ partnered with Oakland Undivided to run nearly half a million speed tests across Oakland. ‘Over 75% of the Internet connections we tested never reach the speed threshold to be considered served,’ Oakland Undivided director Patrick Messac said. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hubble IQ)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The context:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandundivided.org/fixthemaps\">Oakland Undivided\u003c/a> recently partnered with remote technology performance management company, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hubbleiq.com/broadbandequity\">Hubble IQ,\u003c/a> to run nearly half a million speed tests across Oakland.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The facts of the digital divide in California are stark. Race and income are the best predictors of whether you have access to the Internet in your neighborhood, how reliable it is and what you pay for it.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Patrick Messac, director, Oakland Undivided","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Over 75% of the Internet connections we tested never reach the speed threshold to be considered served,” said Oakland Undivided director Patrick Messac. “The facts of the digital divide in California are stark. Race and income are the best predictors of whether you have access to the Internet in your neighborhood, how reliable it is and what you pay for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The big picture:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“In many cases, I would say that discrimination is often not per se the intent. Maximizing profit and delivering value to shareholders is the intent,” Tracy Rosenberg of \u003ca href=\"https://media-alliance.org/2024/03/protecting-digital-discrimination-rules-in-the-8th-circuit/\">Media Alliance wrote\u003c/a>. The advocacy group is a party to the 8th Circuit proceeding where the FCC’s rules, which AB 2239 aims to align with at the state level, are being challenged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of history, market conditions and existing societal divides, the intent of maximizing shareholder value leads inexorably to actions that exacerbate digital inequity,” Rosenberg added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The opposing view:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Contacted for comment, a spokeswoman for Charter Communications’ company, \u003ca href=\"https://policy.charter.com/charter-california-fact-sheet.pdf\">Spectrum\u003c/a>, responded that it is still reviewing the legislation but that “Spectrum Internet plans, download speeds and regular prices are not only exactly the same in \u003cem>every\u003c/em> ZIP code we serve in California but also across our entire 41-state service area.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11954197","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230629-WiFi-Illo-AV-KQED-1020x765.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>AT&T, another major player in the state, referred KQED to Cal Chamber, which lobbies on behalf of the broadband industry. In a \u003ca href=\"https://ct3.blob.core.windows.net/23blobs/a72cc815-68b6-4ff2-9a4c-2922f3666233\">letter\u003c/a> to the Assembly Communications & Conveyance Committee, which is hearing AB 2239 on Tuesday, Cal Chamber argued, “We do not want to repeat the FCC’s mistakes in California, which would risk provoking costly litigation and delaying the deployment,” of ongoing universal connectivity programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The bottom line:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This early in the legislative session, it’s hard to anticipate whether the bill will survive or how its language might be changed in the coming months to mollify industry-backed critics or forestall lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bonta said that if her bill becomes law, California will send a clear signal to the rest of the country to consider Internet connectivity as a social justice issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11982394/new-bill-pushes-california-to-confront-digital-discrimination","authors":["251"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_22447","news_33653","news_21405","news_27626","news_31079","news_29347","news_18","news_353","news_1631"],"featImg":"news_11887623","label":"news"},"news_11982005":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11982005","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11982005","score":null,"sort":[1712339241000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"apple-cuts-over-600-california-workers-in-first-post-pandemic-layoff-wave","title":"Apple Cuts Over 600 California Workers in First Post-Pandemic Layoff Wave","publishDate":1712339241,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Apple Cuts Over 600 California Workers in First Post-Pandemic Layoff Wave | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Apple is laying off more than 600 workers in California, marking the company’s first big wave of post-pandemic job cuts amid a broader wave of tech industry consolidation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The iPhone maker notified 614 workers in multiple offices on March 28 that they were losing their jobs, with the layoffs becoming effective on May 27, according to reports to regional authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers were cut from eight Santa Clara offices, according to the filings under the state’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, also known as WARN. But it’s unclear which departments or projects the employees were involved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cupertino company had been a notable exception as other tech companies slashed their workforces over the past two years. There was a massive surge in hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people spent more time and money online, and big tech companies are still larger than before the pandemic. Still, as growth slows, companies are focusing on cutting costs. [aside postID=news_11979609 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-GAMEINDUSTRY-JY-003-KQED-1020x680.jpg']In a recent regulatory filing, Apple said it had about 161,000 full-time equivalent employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Amazon announced a \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/amazon-aws-layoffs-cloud-a26feee15793a65dca046b99e780943e#:~:text=In%20addition%20to%20the%20physical,as%20well%20as%20sales%20operations.\">fresh round of layoffs\u003c/a>, this time at its cloud computing business AWS. In recent months, video game maker \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/electronic-arts-layoffs-sony-microsoft-8725a896ccbd19c324b48f8c69981677\">Electronic Arts\u003c/a> said it’s cutting about 5% of its workforce, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sony-interactive-jobs-playstation-1f85ae1c0bdda667bd59ee87ac912000\">Sony\u003c/a> said it is axing about 900 jobs in its PlayStation division, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/cisco-systems-layoffs-technology-trend-artificial-intelligence-28dc2ba343f65151c2187fd3f446ee7e\">Cisco Systems\u003c/a> revealed plans to lay off more than 4,000 workers and social media company Snap, owner of \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/snapchat-snap-layoffs-tech-b67df4deb437af7fc1612425a379cdd4\">Snapchat\u003c/a>, announced it is slashing 10% of its global workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"On March 28, the iPhone maker notified 614 employees across 8 Santa Clara offices that they were losing their jobs. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712340093,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":300},"headData":{"title":"Apple Cuts Over 600 California Workers in First Post-Pandemic Layoff Wave | KQED","description":"On March 28, the iPhone maker notified 614 employees across 8 Santa Clara offices that they were losing their jobs. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Apple Cuts Over 600 California Workers in First Post-Pandemic Layoff Wave","datePublished":"2024-04-05T17:47:21.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-05T18:01:33.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/\">The Associated Press\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11982005/apple-cuts-over-600-california-workers-in-first-post-pandemic-layoff-wave","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Apple is laying off more than 600 workers in California, marking the company’s first big wave of post-pandemic job cuts amid a broader wave of tech industry consolidation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The iPhone maker notified 614 workers in multiple offices on March 28 that they were losing their jobs, with the layoffs becoming effective on May 27, according to reports to regional authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers were cut from eight Santa Clara offices, according to the filings under the state’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, also known as WARN. But it’s unclear which departments or projects the employees were involved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cupertino company had been a notable exception as other tech companies slashed their workforces over the past two years. There was a massive surge in hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people spent more time and money online, and big tech companies are still larger than before the pandemic. Still, as growth slows, companies are focusing on cutting costs. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11979609","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-GAMEINDUSTRY-JY-003-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a recent regulatory filing, Apple said it had about 161,000 full-time equivalent employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Amazon announced a \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/amazon-aws-layoffs-cloud-a26feee15793a65dca046b99e780943e#:~:text=In%20addition%20to%20the%20physical,as%20well%20as%20sales%20operations.\">fresh round of layoffs\u003c/a>, this time at its cloud computing business AWS. In recent months, video game maker \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/electronic-arts-layoffs-sony-microsoft-8725a896ccbd19c324b48f8c69981677\">Electronic Arts\u003c/a> said it’s cutting about 5% of its workforce, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sony-interactive-jobs-playstation-1f85ae1c0bdda667bd59ee87ac912000\">Sony\u003c/a> said it is axing about 900 jobs in its PlayStation division, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/cisco-systems-layoffs-technology-trend-artificial-intelligence-28dc2ba343f65151c2187fd3f446ee7e\">Cisco Systems\u003c/a> revealed plans to lay off more than 4,000 workers and social media company Snap, owner of \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/snapchat-snap-layoffs-tech-b67df4deb437af7fc1612425a379cdd4\">Snapchat\u003c/a>, announced it is slashing 10% of its global workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11982005/apple-cuts-over-600-california-workers-in-first-post-pandemic-layoff-wave","authors":["byline_news_11982005"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19182","news_26334","news_352","news_1749","news_5745","news_1631"],"featImg":"news_11982008","label":"news"},"news_11978610":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11978610","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11978610","score":null,"sort":[1709858607000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"breed-unveils-san-franciscos-downtown-revival-plan-in-annual-city-address","title":"Breed Unveils San Francisco's Downtown Revival Plan in Annual City Address","publishDate":1709858607,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Breed Unveils San Francisco’s Downtown Revival Plan in Annual City Address | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>During her annual State of the City address Thursday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed unveiled a new plan to revitalize the city’s struggling downtown area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s goal with the 30 by 30 initiative is to attract 30,000 residents and students downtown by 2030.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed\"]‘We are recruiting new businesses and continuing to see new leases signed led by AI, which alone is projected to add 12 million square feet of office space by 2030.’[/pullquote]“Downtown has always been the economic engine that funds the services we care about, and its post-pandemic difficulties are the driving reason for the deficit we now face,” Breed said from Pier 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed acknowledged the city’s economic reliance on industries operating from downtown offices. That dependence was made clear at the onset of the pandemic, with a persistent downtown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955554/could-empty-offices-in-san-francisco-be-converted-to-homes\">office vacancy rate exceeding 30% due to the shift to remote work.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Breed also indicated that she believes technology companies still have a large role to play in fueling that economic engine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are recruiting new businesses and continuing to see new leases signed led by AI, which alone is projected to add 12 million square feet of office space by 2030,” Breed said. “And it won’t be AI alone. This is one of the most beautiful urban environments in the world, with an unrivaled pool of talent, of builders and dreamers, and the largest collection of deployable capital in the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To meet this new goal, Breed said she hopes to work with state Sen. Scott Wiener to \u003ca href=\"https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/20240216-senator-wiener-introduces-bill-revitalize-downtown-san-francisco\">change state laws\u003c/a> to provide regulatory and tax exemptions for building conversions and spur housing production downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Breed committed to vetoing any new piece of legislation that she deemed to be anti-housing.[aside label='More on London Breed' tag='london-breed']\u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-and-research/plans-and-reports\">A state report released last October\u003c/a> criticized city rules for making new housing production slower and costlier. Even if some of those local rules are changed — obstacles remain — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839409/5-reasons-its-so-expensive-to-build-housing-in-california\">high construction costs.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcements come as Breed seems poised to score several victories in Tuesday’s election, including the likely passage of propositions C, E and F, which she sponsored. Though not all votes have been counted, all three measures were leading by more than five percentage points as of \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.org/results/20240305w/index.html\">Thursday afternoon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition C, if passed, would provide the new owners of converted office buildings with a one-time exemption from the city’s real estate transfer tax. As of this writing, it currently leads with nearly 54% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition F would require residents who receive city benefits to submit to drug screenings and treatment programs if they are suspected of having a dependence on illegal drugs or risk losing their benefits. Critics say coerced participation is not likely to lead to successful treatment — and vulnerable people could lose their housing if cut off from assistance programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her speech, the mayor thanked residents for their support of those propositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will roll out 400 automated license plate cameras at 100 intersections across the city this month. Thanks to the voters for approving Proposition E on Tuesday,” Breed said. “We will be installing new public safety cameras in high-crime areas, deploying drones for auto theft, car break-ins and other crimes.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed\"]‘We will roll out 400 automated license plate cameras at 100 intersections across the city this month. … We will be installing new public safety cameras in high-crime areas, deploying drones for auto theft, car break-ins and other crimes.’[/pullquote] Along with giving police greater access to surveillance technology and reducing officer requirements for use-of-force reporting, Proposition E would allow police to engage in vehicle pursuits more often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor seemed to take Tuesday’s election results as a mandate to continue her efforts to ramp up police crackdowns in the city, vowing to support arrests of drug dealers and even drug users “who are a danger to themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, offering people services is critical, but frankly, we must compel some people into treatment,” Breed said, adding that she also hopes to expand treatment options for those suffering from substance use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s test of true public support, though, will come in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when residents will decide whether to re-elect Breed and give her the time to enact these plans or vote in one of her challengers instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Francisco Mayor London Breed delivered her State of the City address at Pier 27, unveiling the ‘30 by 30’ initiative. The plan seeks to revive the city's downtown by drawing in 30,000 residents and students by 2030.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1709860130,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":789},"headData":{"title":"Breed Unveils San Francisco's Downtown Revival Plan in Annual City Address | KQED","description":"San Francisco Mayor London Breed delivered her State of the City address at Pier 27, unveiling the ‘30 by 30’ initiative. 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That dependence was made clear at the onset of the pandemic, with a persistent downtown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955554/could-empty-offices-in-san-francisco-be-converted-to-homes\">office vacancy rate exceeding 30% due to the shift to remote work.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Breed also indicated that she believes technology companies still have a large role to play in fueling that economic engine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are recruiting new businesses and continuing to see new leases signed led by AI, which alone is projected to add 12 million square feet of office space by 2030,” Breed said. “And it won’t be AI alone. 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Even if some of those local rules are changed — obstacles remain — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839409/5-reasons-its-so-expensive-to-build-housing-in-california\">high construction costs.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcements come as Breed seems poised to score several victories in Tuesday’s election, including the likely passage of propositions C, E and F, which she sponsored. Though not all votes have been counted, all three measures were leading by more than five percentage points as of \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.org/results/20240305w/index.html\">Thursday afternoon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition C, if passed, would provide the new owners of converted office buildings with a one-time exemption from the city’s real estate transfer tax. 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Thanks to the voters for approving Proposition E on Tuesday,” Breed said. “We will be installing new public safety cameras in high-crime areas, deploying drones for auto theft, car break-ins and other crimes.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We will roll out 400 automated license plate cameras at 100 intersections across the city this month. … We will be installing new public safety cameras in high-crime areas, deploying drones for auto theft, car break-ins and other crimes.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"San Francisco Mayor London Breed","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Along with giving police greater access to surveillance technology and reducing officer requirements for use-of-force reporting, Proposition E would allow police to engage in vehicle pursuits more often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor seemed to take Tuesday’s election results as a mandate to continue her efforts to ramp up police crackdowns in the city, vowing to support arrests of drug dealers and even drug users “who are a danger to themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, offering people services is critical, but frankly, we must compel some people into treatment,” Breed said, adding that she also hopes to expand treatment options for those suffering from substance use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s test of true public support, though, will come in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when residents will decide whether to re-elect Breed and give her the time to enact these plans or vote in one of her challengers instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11978610/breed-unveils-san-franciscos-downtown-revival-plan-in-annual-city-address","authors":["11761"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_25184","news_2114","news_18545","news_23420","news_27626","news_6931","news_17968","news_18536","news_38","news_33882","news_1631"],"featImg":"news_11978597","label":"news"},"news_11978448":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11978448","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11978448","score":null,"sort":[1709825423000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"los-angeles-county-uses-ai-to-prevent-homelessness-and-offers-assistance","title":"Los Angeles County Uses AI to Prevent Homelessness and Offers Assistance","publishDate":1709825423,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Los Angeles County Uses AI to Prevent Homelessness and Offers Assistance | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>You’ve likely heard about AI powering driverless cars, writing term papers and creating unsettling deep fakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can that same technology also prevent people from becoming homeless?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Los Angeles County is trying to find out. Officials there are using \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/02/ai-elections-bill-package/\">AI technology\u003c/a> to predict who in the county is most likely to lose their housing — and then stepping in to help those people with their rent, utility bills, car payments and more.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dana Vanderford, associate director of homelessness prevention, LA County’s Department of Health Services\"]‘If we know who people are who unfortunately are going to have that experience … it’s a real opportunity to do something early on in their lives to prevent that from happening.’[/pullquote]It’s still an experimental strategy. But the program has served more than 700 clients since 2021, and 86% have retained their housing. It comes at a time when \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/01/california-homeless-point-in-time-count-2024/\">more than 180,000 Californians have no place to call home\u003c/a>, and people are ending up on the streets faster than government agencies and nonprofits can get them into housing. Officials all over the state are turning to methods aimed at preventing homelessness before it happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA County’s algorithm analyzes data from residents’ emergency room visits, jail stays, use of food assistance and more, and has sparked interest from Silicon Valley to San Diego. Final data on the program — which has roughly $26 million in federal COVID funds and is expected to end in 2026 — aren’t yet out. If it’s successful, it could have major implications for helping cities and counties spend their limited resources more efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we know who people are who unfortunately are going to have that experience, and they’re already county clients, it’s a real opportunity to do something early on in their lives to prevent that from happening,” said Dana Vanderford, associate director of homelessness prevention for LA County’s Department of Health Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978466\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dana Vanderford, Associate Director of Homelessness Prevention at Housing for Health at Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, in Los Angeles, on Feb. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How does artificial intelligence predict homelessness?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea started in 2019, when UCLA’s California Policy Lab began experimenting to see if it could use machine learning, combined with LA County data, to predict homelessness. Then, the county paired that with money to intervene before people ended up on the street — the program is predominantly funded with $26 million in COVID-era \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/american-rescue-plan/\">funds from the federal American Rescue Plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UCLA researchers start with a list of 90,000 people who recently used services from the county’s Health Services or Mental Health departments. Using 580 factors, the computer ranks those people from 1 to 90,000 based on their risk of becoming homeless. The people deemed to be highest-risk tend to show up in emergency rooms and jails at high rates and have high usage of services such as CalFresh food benefits. However, the model considers many more data points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, if people receive services in many different geographic areas, it could mean they’re couch surfing — bouncing from one precarious living situation to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You sort of let the computer learn what it finds to be predictive over time,” said Janey Rountree, executive director of the California Policy Lab at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To train the algorithm, the researchers showed it a list of people who became homeless along with the services they used before losing their housing. Then, they had the algorithm practice “predicting” homelessness using old data and checked to see if it was accurate. When they were satisfied, they started using it for real predictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How well does it work? Among the 90,000 people the researchers started with, 7% became homeless in 18 months. Among the 10,000 people the algorithm deemed to be the highest risk, 24% became homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they were targeting fewer people (say 1,000 instead of 10,000), it would be even more accurate, Rountree said. But social workers aren’t able to get in touch with many of the people on the list, and others don’t agree to participate in the aid program, so they have to cast a broader net.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Janey Rountree, executive director, UCLA’s California Policy Lab\"]‘You sort of let the computer learn what it finds to be predictive over time.’[/pullquote]Is a computer really better at guessing who will become homeless than human social workers trained in this work? Rountree says yes — 3.5 times better, to be exact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem with humans, she said, is that they’re biased toward the people they know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just human nature to want to help the people that you’re in contact with,” she said. “They all seem housing-unstable and at high risk. You want to help those individuals or those families in front of you. But not all of them are going to become homeless and be on the street or use shelter if they don’t get assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caseworkers also often prioritize people with lower needs, Rountree said. Someone who recently lost their job but otherwise is stable gets preference over someone facing ongoing struggles with their mental health or addiction because the stable person is easier to help. However, the stable person may not be the one who needs the help the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rountree said there’s also a belief that people with higher needs will not spend the money they’re given wisely. But AI doesn’t have that bias, so it ensures the money goes to those who need it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results are apparent. People the algorithm targets are much more likely to have been incarcerated, sought substance use treatment, had mental health issues or been hospitalized than the people who seek aid through LA County’s other homelessness prevention programs, Rountree said. In that way, this program fills a hole in LA County’s net of services, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA County’s other, more traditional programs geared to prevent homelessness rely on people reaching out to request help or on caseworkers referring clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, they aren’t duplicating efforts. There’s almost no overlap between the people targeted by the AI algorithm and those served by traditional prevention programs, Vanderford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know there’s a significant population of folks, who if somebody doesn’t reach out to them to offer assistance, they might lose their housing right out from under them without reaching out for assistance themselves,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Then, a human steps in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Four times a year, the Policy Lab researchers send LA County a list of residents the AI program has deemed most likely to become homeless. The county then mails those people letters, telling them they’ve been selected to participate in the program. After that, a social worker cold-calls them to tell them the good news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person at the other end of the line is often convinced it’s a scam. After all, how often does someone legitimate call out of the blue to offer free money?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When that happens, case worker Genice Brown usually asks if she can email them—a move she hopes lends a bit more credence to her pitch. Once she convinces them the program is real, nine out of 10 people agree to sign up, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genice Brown, a medical case worker with the Housing Stabilization and Homelessness Prevention Unit, in Los Angeles on Feb. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Individuals enrolled in the program receive a base sum of either $4,000 or $6,000 (the amount is randomly assigned so researchers can assess the impacts of different amounts of money). Families start at $6,000 or $8,000, with larger families receiving more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown can use that money for whatever her clients need most. Usually, rent comes first, but it also can cover other bills. In addition, she helps connect her clients to doctors, dentists and mental health services. If they’re looking for work, Brown gets them gift cards for interview outfits, helps them with their resumes and role-plays interview questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She works with each client for three or four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I just really needed the help’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For 38-year-old Sandricka Henderson, help came just in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diagnosed with lupus at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Henderson could no longer work her physically demanding warehouse job. Disability benefits gave her barely more than $1,000 a month — just a quarter of what she made while she was working. With an 8-year-old son to support, Henderson found she was at least $400 behind on her bills every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before Christmas last year, Henderson received a call from a woman offering free money. Henderson was sure it was a scam and braced for the woman to ask for her Social Security number.[aside label='More Stories on Artificial Intelligence' tag='artificial-intelligence']But the social worker (who turned out to be Genice Brown) didn’t, and Henderson eventually realized the program was real. The first thing Brown gave her was a $100 gift card to a local grocery store — a blessing, Henderson said because she had nothing in her refrigerator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, Henderson’s landlord sent her a letter warning she had 10 days to pay her rent or be evicted. About a week later, Brown sent the rent money and helped Henderson avoid catastrophe. She also helped Henderson catch up on her car payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Henderson no longer feels like she’s teetering on the edge of homelessness. She has some money in her savings account, and her rent is prepaid for several months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just really needed the help,” Henderson said. Because she’s used to working hard and taking care of herself, she added, she never would have reached out and asked for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really did change my whole circumstances,” she said. “My son had a Christmas that I didn’t think I was going to be able to give him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The future of AI in homelessness services\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout California, new people are becoming homeless faster than aid workers can find existing homeless residents housing. \u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org/community-plan/\">In Santa Clara County, for example, for every one homeless household that moved into housing last year, another 1.7 became newly homeless\u003c/a>, according to \u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org/who-we-are/\">Destination: Home, a Santa Clara County-based organization focused on ending homelessness\u003c/a>.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Consuelo Hernandez, director, LA County’s Office of Supportive Housing\"]‘Without having additional resources, what is the true benefit of knowing there are more people out there who are in need?’[/pullquote]The LA County team has met with government agencies from all over the country who are interested in its AI model, including Santa Clara and San Diego counties, Vanderford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County is working on a plan for homelessness prevention, Tim McClain, spokesman for the county’s Health and Human Services Agency, said in an email to CalMatters. He wouldn’t provide any additional updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County met with the California Policy Lab earlier this year and hopes to schedule another informational meeting soon, said Consuelo Hernandez, director of the county’s Office of Supportive Housing. The county’s homelessness prevention program relies on humans triaging clients. If artificial intelligence can do that work more efficiently, it’s worth exploring, Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the end of the day, what they want is more money to help the people who already fill their queues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without having additional resources,” Hernandez said, “what is the true benefit of knowing there are more people out there who are in need?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It’s an experiment still in progress: machine learning predicts who will end up on the street — and then social workers step in to offer help. So far, nearly 90% of participants kept their housing. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1709834289,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":2049},"headData":{"title":"Los Angeles County Uses AI to Prevent Homelessness and Offers Assistance | KQED","description":"It’s an experiment still in progress: machine learning predicts who will end up on the street — and then social workers step in to offer help. So far, nearly 90% of participants kept their housing. 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Officials there are using \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/02/ai-elections-bill-package/\">AI technology\u003c/a> to predict who in the county is most likely to lose their housing — and then stepping in to help those people with their rent, utility bills, car payments and more.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If we know who people are who unfortunately are going to have that experience … it’s a real opportunity to do something early on in their lives to prevent that from happening.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Dana Vanderford, associate director of homelessness prevention, LA County’s Department of Health Services","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s still an experimental strategy. But the program has served more than 700 clients since 2021, and 86% have retained their housing. It comes at a time when \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/01/california-homeless-point-in-time-count-2024/\">more than 180,000 Californians have no place to call home\u003c/a>, and people are ending up on the streets faster than government agencies and nonprofits can get them into housing. Officials all over the state are turning to methods aimed at preventing homelessness before it happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA County’s algorithm analyzes data from residents’ emergency room visits, jail stays, use of food assistance and more, and has sparked interest from Silicon Valley to San Diego. Final data on the program — which has roughly $26 million in federal COVID funds and is expected to end in 2026 — aren’t yet out. If it’s successful, it could have major implications for helping cities and counties spend their limited resources more efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we know who people are who unfortunately are going to have that experience, and they’re already county clients, it’s a real opportunity to do something early on in their lives to prevent that from happening,” said Dana Vanderford, associate director of homelessness prevention for LA County’s Department of Health Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978466\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dana Vanderford, Associate Director of Homelessness Prevention at Housing for Health at Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, in Los Angeles, on Feb. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How does artificial intelligence predict homelessness?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea started in 2019, when UCLA’s California Policy Lab began experimenting to see if it could use machine learning, combined with LA County data, to predict homelessness. Then, the county paired that with money to intervene before people ended up on the street — the program is predominantly funded with $26 million in COVID-era \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/american-rescue-plan/\">funds from the federal American Rescue Plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UCLA researchers start with a list of 90,000 people who recently used services from the county’s Health Services or Mental Health departments. Using 580 factors, the computer ranks those people from 1 to 90,000 based on their risk of becoming homeless. The people deemed to be highest-risk tend to show up in emergency rooms and jails at high rates and have high usage of services such as CalFresh food benefits. However, the model considers many more data points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, if people receive services in many different geographic areas, it could mean they’re couch surfing — bouncing from one precarious living situation to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You sort of let the computer learn what it finds to be predictive over time,” said Janey Rountree, executive director of the California Policy Lab at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To train the algorithm, the researchers showed it a list of people who became homeless along with the services they used before losing their housing. Then, they had the algorithm practice “predicting” homelessness using old data and checked to see if it was accurate. When they were satisfied, they started using it for real predictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How well does it work? Among the 90,000 people the researchers started with, 7% became homeless in 18 months. Among the 10,000 people the algorithm deemed to be the highest risk, 24% became homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they were targeting fewer people (say 1,000 instead of 10,000), it would be even more accurate, Rountree said. But social workers aren’t able to get in touch with many of the people on the list, and others don’t agree to participate in the aid program, so they have to cast a broader net.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘You sort of let the computer learn what it finds to be predictive over time.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Janey Rountree, executive director, UCLA’s California Policy Lab","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Is a computer really better at guessing who will become homeless than human social workers trained in this work? Rountree says yes — 3.5 times better, to be exact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem with humans, she said, is that they’re biased toward the people they know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just human nature to want to help the people that you’re in contact with,” she said. “They all seem housing-unstable and at high risk. You want to help those individuals or those families in front of you. But not all of them are going to become homeless and be on the street or use shelter if they don’t get assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caseworkers also often prioritize people with lower needs, Rountree said. Someone who recently lost their job but otherwise is stable gets preference over someone facing ongoing struggles with their mental health or addiction because the stable person is easier to help. However, the stable person may not be the one who needs the help the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rountree said there’s also a belief that people with higher needs will not spend the money they’re given wisely. But AI doesn’t have that bias, so it ensures the money goes to those who need it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results are apparent. People the algorithm targets are much more likely to have been incarcerated, sought substance use treatment, had mental health issues or been hospitalized than the people who seek aid through LA County’s other homelessness prevention programs, Rountree said. In that way, this program fills a hole in LA County’s net of services, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA County’s other, more traditional programs geared to prevent homelessness rely on people reaching out to request help or on caseworkers referring clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, they aren’t duplicating efforts. There’s almost no overlap between the people targeted by the AI algorithm and those served by traditional prevention programs, Vanderford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know there’s a significant population of folks, who if somebody doesn’t reach out to them to offer assistance, they might lose their housing right out from under them without reaching out for assistance themselves,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Then, a human steps in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Four times a year, the Policy Lab researchers send LA County a list of residents the AI program has deemed most likely to become homeless. The county then mails those people letters, telling them they’ve been selected to participate in the program. After that, a social worker cold-calls them to tell them the good news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person at the other end of the line is often convinced it’s a scam. After all, how often does someone legitimate call out of the blue to offer free money?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When that happens, case worker Genice Brown usually asks if she can email them—a move she hopes lends a bit more credence to her pitch. Once she convinces them the program is real, nine out of 10 people agree to sign up, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genice Brown, a medical case worker with the Housing Stabilization and Homelessness Prevention Unit, in Los Angeles on Feb. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Individuals enrolled in the program receive a base sum of either $4,000 or $6,000 (the amount is randomly assigned so researchers can assess the impacts of different amounts of money). Families start at $6,000 or $8,000, with larger families receiving more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown can use that money for whatever her clients need most. Usually, rent comes first, but it also can cover other bills. In addition, she helps connect her clients to doctors, dentists and mental health services. If they’re looking for work, Brown gets them gift cards for interview outfits, helps them with their resumes and role-plays interview questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She works with each client for three or four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I just really needed the help’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For 38-year-old Sandricka Henderson, help came just in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diagnosed with lupus at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Henderson could no longer work her physically demanding warehouse job. Disability benefits gave her barely more than $1,000 a month — just a quarter of what she made while she was working. With an 8-year-old son to support, Henderson found she was at least $400 behind on her bills every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before Christmas last year, Henderson received a call from a woman offering free money. Henderson was sure it was a scam and braced for the woman to ask for her Social Security number.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories on Artificial Intelligence ","tag":"artificial-intelligence"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But the social worker (who turned out to be Genice Brown) didn’t, and Henderson eventually realized the program was real. The first thing Brown gave her was a $100 gift card to a local grocery store — a blessing, Henderson said because she had nothing in her refrigerator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, Henderson’s landlord sent her a letter warning she had 10 days to pay her rent or be evicted. About a week later, Brown sent the rent money and helped Henderson avoid catastrophe. She also helped Henderson catch up on her car payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Henderson no longer feels like she’s teetering on the edge of homelessness. She has some money in her savings account, and her rent is prepaid for several months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just really needed the help,” Henderson said. Because she’s used to working hard and taking care of herself, she added, she never would have reached out and asked for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really did change my whole circumstances,” she said. “My son had a Christmas that I didn’t think I was going to be able to give him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The future of AI in homelessness services\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout California, new people are becoming homeless faster than aid workers can find existing homeless residents housing. \u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org/community-plan/\">In Santa Clara County, for example, for every one homeless household that moved into housing last year, another 1.7 became newly homeless\u003c/a>, according to \u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org/who-we-are/\">Destination: Home, a Santa Clara County-based organization focused on ending homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Without having additional resources, what is the true benefit of knowing there are more people out there who are in need?’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Consuelo Hernandez, director, LA County’s Office of Supportive Housing","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The LA County team has met with government agencies from all over the country who are interested in its AI model, including Santa Clara and San Diego counties, Vanderford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County is working on a plan for homelessness prevention, Tim McClain, spokesman for the county’s Health and Human Services Agency, said in an email to CalMatters. He wouldn’t provide any additional updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County met with the California Policy Lab earlier this year and hopes to schedule another informational meeting soon, said Consuelo Hernandez, director of the county’s Office of Supportive Housing. The county’s homelessness prevention program relies on humans triaging clients. If artificial intelligence can do that work more efficiently, it’s worth exploring, Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the end of the day, what they want is more money to help the people who already fill their queues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without having additional resources,” Hernandez said, “what is the true benefit of knowing there are more people out there who are in need?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11978448/los-angeles-county-uses-ai-to-prevent-homelessness-and-offers-assistance","authors":["byline_news_11978448"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_25184","news_2114","news_18538","news_4020","news_1775","news_1631"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11978450","label":"source_news_11978448"},"news_11976367":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11976367","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11976367","score":null,"sort":[1708459201000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-areas-fix-it-culture-thrives-as-right-to-repair-law-takes-effect-soon","title":"Bay Area's 'Fix-It' Culture Thrives Amid State's Forthcoming Right-to-Repair Law","publishDate":1708459201,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area’s ‘Fix-It’ Culture Thrives Amid State’s Forthcoming Right-to-Repair Law | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Nancy Harris does what many Americans do when appliances break — she throws them away. In particular, she has gone through four Magic Bullet blenders. When this happened again, she decided to try to save it and break the cycle of waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That desire, mixed with frustration, motivated her to drive 25 miles of foggy roads from Moss Beach to the Redwood City Public Library one recent Saturday morning. There, she found a Fixit Clinic. It’s a bustling, pop-up workshop where around a dozen volunteers — called Fixit Coaches — were hunched over their projects. Wires splayed out from a toaster. There was a disassembled air purifier. A 1950s-era waffle iron was ready for dissection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon Harris’s arrival, the group did a customary welcome ritual. A volunteer took the broken appliance and held it up in the air — like Simba in “The Lion King” — and shouted “Magic Bullet Blender!” Cheers ensued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Peter Mui, founder, Fixit Clinics\"]‘It’s incumbent on us at this point in the planet to keep all of our durable goods in service as long as possible.’[/pullquote]Harris was then thrown into the deep end of this grassroots repair subculture. A person acting as a sort of maitre d’ polled the room of waiting volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who wants to give fixing the blender a shot?” one of them asked.\u003cbr>\nWith a bewildered look on her face, Harris was whisked to a table where volunteer Alex Schmitt was stationed. Schmitt, whose day job is in software, said he likes to tinker in his spare time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris, like a patient at a hospital, described her blender’s symptoms to Schmitt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as I plug it in, it starts whirring. It’s just always on, and I can’t get it to turn off,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schmitt quickly diagnosed the problem. He said the machine probably hadn’t been cleaned in a while. Blended liquids and foods can leak, making the switch that turns the motor on and off permanently stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fixit Clinics are different in that they aren’t places where someone can just drop off an item and expect it to be fixed. At these events, the owners of the appliances are expected to roll up their sleeves and be the primary people enacting the repair, with the guidance of a coach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Schmitt and Harris spent an hour or so working on the small appliance. Together, they manipulated small screwdrivers, removed protective panels to reveal the inner workings of the machine, and even discovered a family of small bugs that had made a home inside the motor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before long, Harris’s Magic Bullet was as good as new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That saves me $100, $200 every couple of years when this happens again,” she said. “I’m really happy about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974710\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a work apron holds up a set of bells in an indoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Mui celebrates an item being repaired by chiming tingsha bells at a Fixit clinic in Millbrae on Feb. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Harris said her goodbyes, Peter Mui held up the blender in the air and initiated another Fixit Clinic ritual, yelling, “Magic Bullet Fixed!” This time, he rang a bell, the sonic signal of a victory. The workshop, like a set piece in a movie musical, erupted in cheers again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bay Area Roots\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mui founded Fixit Clinics in Berkeley in 2009. The first one was at the UC Berkeley Albany Village Community Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really just to see if we could even fix anything,” Mui said. “And lo and behold, not only could we open them up, but we could fix a lot of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a work apron smiles and looks at the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Mui at a Fixit clinic in Millbrae on Feb. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said since then, people have asked him and his fellow fixers to repair all sorts of things: broken washing machines, a Geiger counter, even a backpack to carry a parrot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like improv. You never know what the general public is going to present you with,” Mui said. “It speaks to our innate desire to want to fix and to be curious about why the thing broke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mui, Fixit Clinics have a dual purpose: They are places where people can learn critical thinking and troubleshooting skills through repair, and they’re designed to get people to think about how their buying habits affect the environment. He argues that getting people into the mindset of repairing before buying something new helps reduce waste, conserve resources, and lower their carbon footprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incumbent on us at this point in the planet to keep all of our durable goods in service as long as possible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past two decades, these clinics have grown in popularity and expanded outside of the Bay Area. Mui said there were over 200 Fixit Clinics last year in the U.S. He has also built an international community on the social media platform Discord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974708\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large room filled with groups of people clustered in groups around tables.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People attend a Fixit clinic hosted by the County of San Mateo’s Office of Sustainability at the library in Millbrae, California, on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, Mui has partnered with the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability to bring Fixit Clinics to a different San Mateo County Library each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has exploded,” said Shova Ale Magar, a sustainability specialist at the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability. “We have a lot more demand than what we can offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mui said the ultimate goal is to increase a local repair culture in the Bay Area and around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to propagate these skills and that ethos,” he said. “It’s a hobby that has gotten way out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Right to Repair\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This community of passionate fixers has grown alongside a burgeoning right-to-repair movement in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, California will become the sixth state in the nation to enact a right-to-repair law. The new law will require manufacturers of appliances and electronics to make the parts, tools, and information necessary to fix their products broadly available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974709\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people work closely on the inside of a wooden device.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Caughman (right) holds a clock while Charlie Kennedy (left) inspects it at a Fixit clinic in Millbrae on Feb. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mui said this signals a turning of the tide in the fight for the right to repair, given the stiff opposition California and other states have been met with when attempting to pass right-to-repair legislation. Companies like Apple, John Deere, and T-Mobile have all lobbied against these laws in an attempt to keep information on how to make repairs secret or require that repairs only be made by the company itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apple has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in California alone fighting against right to repair and millions of dollars nationally,” said Liz Chamberlain, Director of Sustainability at iFixit, a website that sells repair guides and tools for electronics and appliances. (iFixit also co-sponsored California’s right-to-repair law.) “But at the last minute in California, right before the bill passed, they came on in support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2023, when California’s law was signed, Apple announced it would comply with the law nationally, not just in California. In January, Samsung announced it was broadly expanding its self-repair program for its phones, tablets and PCs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Manufacturers can’t just stop selling in California and New York. So, if they want to keep the U.S. market, they have to comply,” Chamberlain said. “Manufacturers are interested in making money, but they’re also not interested in angering customers, and if customers tell them over and over again, ‘Hey, we don’t want this stuff to break after a year; we want to be able to fix it.’ Eventually, they will respond to that consumer demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chamberlain, California has the strongest right-to-repair law passed by any state so far, but it has some caveats. It only applies to products sold after 2021, and there is a limited time frame for when it applies. If an item costs between $50 and $99.99, manufacturers must make parts, tools and information to repair the item available for three years after the sale. If it is more than $100, manufacturers must make these repair assets available for seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far this year, 24 state Legislatures are considering their right-to-repair measures covering everything from farm equipment to cars to consumer electronics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people are fed up with disposable culture,” Chamberlain said. “They’re fed up with the idea that planned obsolescence has become status quo in a way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those same people fed up with disposable culture are falling in love with the feeling of repair, Mui said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because when the thing starts working again, and they’re the ones who fixed it, it’s like Easter,” he adds. “It’s a really wonderful feeling that we don’t want to deprive anybody of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As right-to-repair laws gain traction in California and many other states, the repair culture that began in the Bay Area remains strong.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1708462362,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1588},"headData":{"title":"Bay Area's 'Fix-It' Culture Thrives Amid State's Forthcoming Right-to-Repair Law | KQED","description":"As right-to-repair laws gain traction in California and many other states, the repair culture that began in the Bay Area remains strong.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Bay Area's 'Fix-It' Culture Thrives Amid State's Forthcoming Right-to-Repair Law","datePublished":"2024-02-20T20:00:01.000Z","dateModified":"2024-02-20T20:52:42.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/3596f3fd-1361-4e1e-8c84-b107015bcf1b/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11976367/bay-areas-fix-it-culture-thrives-as-right-to-repair-law-takes-effect-soon","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nancy Harris does what many Americans do when appliances break — she throws them away. In particular, she has gone through four Magic Bullet blenders. When this happened again, she decided to try to save it and break the cycle of waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That desire, mixed with frustration, motivated her to drive 25 miles of foggy roads from Moss Beach to the Redwood City Public Library one recent Saturday morning. There, she found a Fixit Clinic. It’s a bustling, pop-up workshop where around a dozen volunteers — called Fixit Coaches — were hunched over their projects. Wires splayed out from a toaster. There was a disassembled air purifier. A 1950s-era waffle iron was ready for dissection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon Harris’s arrival, the group did a customary welcome ritual. A volunteer took the broken appliance and held it up in the air — like Simba in “The Lion King” — and shouted “Magic Bullet Blender!” Cheers ensued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It’s incumbent on us at this point in the planet to keep all of our durable goods in service as long as possible.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Peter Mui, founder, Fixit Clinics","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Harris was then thrown into the deep end of this grassroots repair subculture. A person acting as a sort of maitre d’ polled the room of waiting volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who wants to give fixing the blender a shot?” one of them asked.\u003cbr>\nWith a bewildered look on her face, Harris was whisked to a table where volunteer Alex Schmitt was stationed. Schmitt, whose day job is in software, said he likes to tinker in his spare time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris, like a patient at a hospital, described her blender’s symptoms to Schmitt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as I plug it in, it starts whirring. It’s just always on, and I can’t get it to turn off,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schmitt quickly diagnosed the problem. He said the machine probably hadn’t been cleaned in a while. Blended liquids and foods can leak, making the switch that turns the motor on and off permanently stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fixit Clinics are different in that they aren’t places where someone can just drop off an item and expect it to be fixed. At these events, the owners of the appliances are expected to roll up their sleeves and be the primary people enacting the repair, with the guidance of a coach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Schmitt and Harris spent an hour or so working on the small appliance. Together, they manipulated small screwdrivers, removed protective panels to reveal the inner workings of the machine, and even discovered a family of small bugs that had made a home inside the motor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before long, Harris’s Magic Bullet was as good as new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That saves me $100, $200 every couple of years when this happens again,” she said. “I’m really happy about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974710\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a work apron holds up a set of bells in an indoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Mui celebrates an item being repaired by chiming tingsha bells at a Fixit clinic in Millbrae on Feb. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Harris said her goodbyes, Peter Mui held up the blender in the air and initiated another Fixit Clinic ritual, yelling, “Magic Bullet Fixed!” This time, he rang a bell, the sonic signal of a victory. The workshop, like a set piece in a movie musical, erupted in cheers again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bay Area Roots\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mui founded Fixit Clinics in Berkeley in 2009. The first one was at the UC Berkeley Albany Village Community Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really just to see if we could even fix anything,” Mui said. “And lo and behold, not only could we open them up, but we could fix a lot of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a work apron smiles and looks at the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Mui at a Fixit clinic in Millbrae on Feb. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said since then, people have asked him and his fellow fixers to repair all sorts of things: broken washing machines, a Geiger counter, even a backpack to carry a parrot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like improv. You never know what the general public is going to present you with,” Mui said. “It speaks to our innate desire to want to fix and to be curious about why the thing broke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mui, Fixit Clinics have a dual purpose: They are places where people can learn critical thinking and troubleshooting skills through repair, and they’re designed to get people to think about how their buying habits affect the environment. He argues that getting people into the mindset of repairing before buying something new helps reduce waste, conserve resources, and lower their carbon footprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incumbent on us at this point in the planet to keep all of our durable goods in service as long as possible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past two decades, these clinics have grown in popularity and expanded outside of the Bay Area. Mui said there were over 200 Fixit Clinics last year in the U.S. He has also built an international community on the social media platform Discord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974708\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large room filled with groups of people clustered in groups around tables.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People attend a Fixit clinic hosted by the County of San Mateo’s Office of Sustainability at the library in Millbrae, California, on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, Mui has partnered with the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability to bring Fixit Clinics to a different San Mateo County Library each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has exploded,” said Shova Ale Magar, a sustainability specialist at the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability. “We have a lot more demand than what we can offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mui said the ultimate goal is to increase a local repair culture in the Bay Area and around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to propagate these skills and that ethos,” he said. “It’s a hobby that has gotten way out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Right to Repair\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This community of passionate fixers has grown alongside a burgeoning right-to-repair movement in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, California will become the sixth state in the nation to enact a right-to-repair law. The new law will require manufacturers of appliances and electronics to make the parts, tools, and information necessary to fix their products broadly available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974709\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people work closely on the inside of a wooden device.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240202-FIXITCLINIC-KSM-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Caughman (right) holds a clock while Charlie Kennedy (left) inspects it at a Fixit clinic in Millbrae on Feb. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mui said this signals a turning of the tide in the fight for the right to repair, given the stiff opposition California and other states have been met with when attempting to pass right-to-repair legislation. Companies like Apple, John Deere, and T-Mobile have all lobbied against these laws in an attempt to keep information on how to make repairs secret or require that repairs only be made by the company itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apple has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in California alone fighting against right to repair and millions of dollars nationally,” said Liz Chamberlain, Director of Sustainability at iFixit, a website that sells repair guides and tools for electronics and appliances. (iFixit also co-sponsored California’s right-to-repair law.) “But at the last minute in California, right before the bill passed, they came on in support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2023, when California’s law was signed, Apple announced it would comply with the law nationally, not just in California. In January, Samsung announced it was broadly expanding its self-repair program for its phones, tablets and PCs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Manufacturers can’t just stop selling in California and New York. So, if they want to keep the U.S. market, they have to comply,” Chamberlain said. “Manufacturers are interested in making money, but they’re also not interested in angering customers, and if customers tell them over and over again, ‘Hey, we don’t want this stuff to break after a year; we want to be able to fix it.’ Eventually, they will respond to that consumer demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chamberlain, California has the strongest right-to-repair law passed by any state so far, but it has some caveats. It only applies to products sold after 2021, and there is a limited time frame for when it applies. If an item costs between $50 and $99.99, manufacturers must make parts, tools and information to repair the item available for three years after the sale. If it is more than $100, manufacturers must make these repair assets available for seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far this year, 24 state Legislatures are considering their right-to-repair measures covering everything from farm equipment to cars to consumer electronics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people are fed up with disposable culture,” Chamberlain said. “They’re fed up with the idea that planned obsolescence has become status quo in a way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those same people fed up with disposable culture are falling in love with the feeling of repair, Mui said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because when the thing starts working again, and they’re the ones who fixed it, it’s like Easter,” he adds. “It’s a really wonderful feeling that we don’t want to deprive anybody of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11976367/bay-areas-fix-it-culture-thrives-as-right-to-repair-law-takes-effect-soon","authors":["11785"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_1386","news_27626","news_2960","news_30035","news_1631"],"featImg":"news_11974712","label":"news"},"news_11976097":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11976097","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11976097","score":null,"sort":[1708097417000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-lawmakers-take-on-ai-regulation-with-a-host-of-bills","title":"California Lawmakers Take On AI Regulation With a Host of Bills","publishDate":1708097417,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Lawmakers Take On AI Regulation With a Host of Bills | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>It’s been eight months since Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the outfit that gave us ChatGPT, urged U.S. senators to \u003cem>please\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO0J2Yw7usM\"> pass new laws\u003c/a> to force accountability from the big players, like OpenAI investor Microsoft, as well as Amazon, Google and Meta. “The number of companies is going to be small, just because of the resources required, and so I think there needs to be incredible scrutiny on us and our competitors,” Altman said in May of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, no. That’s not what has happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco)\"]‘I would love to have one unified, federal law that effectively addresses AI safety. Congress has not passed such a law. Congress has not even come close to passing such a law.’[/pullquote]“I would love to have one unified, federal law that effectively addresses AI safety. Congress has \u003ca href=\"https://techpost.bsa.org/2024/02/06/bsa-member-roundtable-what-do-we-expect-from-congress-on-tech-policy-in-2024/\">not passed such a law\u003c/a>. Congress has not even come close to passing such a law,” said Democratic State Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco, one of a growing number of California lawmakers rolling out legislation that could provide a model for other states to follow, if not the federal government. Wiener argues his \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047\">Senate Bill 1047\u003c/a> is the most ambitious proposal so far in the country, and given that he was just named Senate Budget chair, he is arguably the best positioned at the state capitol to pass aggressive legislation that is also well-funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 would require companies building the largest and most powerful AI models — not the wee startups — to test for safety before releasing those models to the public. What does that mean? Here’s some language from the legislation as currently written:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“If not properly subject to human controls, future development in artificial intelligence may also have the potential to be used to create novel threats to public safety and security, including by enabling the creation and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, such as biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons, as well as weapons with cyber-offensive capabilities.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>AI companies would have to tell the state about testing protocols and guardrails, and if the tech causes “critical harm,” California’s attorney general can sue. Wiener says his legislation draws heavily on the Biden administration’s 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/\">executive order on AI\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>By software industry alliance BSA’s count, there are more than 400 AI-related bills pending across 44 states, but California’s size and sophistication make the roughly 30 bills pending in Sacramento most likely to be seen as legal landmarks, should they pass. Also, many of the largest companies working on generative AI models are based in the San Francisco Bay Area. OpenAI is based in San Francisco; so are Anthropic, Databricks and Scale AI. Meta is based in Menlo Park. Google is based in Mountain View. Seattle-based Microsoft and Amazon have offices in the San Francisco Bay Area. According to the think tank Brookings, more than 60% of generative AI jobs posted in the year ending in July 2023 were clustered in just 10 metro areas in the U.S.,\u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/articles/new-data-shows-that-without-intervention-generative-ai-jobs-will-continue-to-cluster-in-the-same-big-tech-hubs/\"> led far and away by the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>The FTC and other regulators are exploring how to use \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/ftc-proposes-new-protections-combat-ai-impersonation-individuals?utm_source=govdelivery\">existing laws\u003c/a> to rein in AI developers and nefarious individuals and organizations using AI to break the law, but many experts say that’s not going to be enough. Lina Khan, who heads the Federal Trade Commission, raised this question during an FTC\u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events/2024/01/ftc-tech-summit\"> summit on AI\u003c/a> last month: “Will a handful of dominant firms concentrate control over these key tools, locking us into a future of their choosing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The big picture: \u003c/strong>By now, you’ve probably gotten the memo: Large AI models are everywhere and doing everything — developing \u003ca href=\"https://news.mit.edu/2020/artificial-intelligence-identifies-new-antibiotic-0220\">new antibiotics\u003c/a> and helping humans \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/use-ai-talk-to-whales-save-life-on-earth/\">communicate with whales\u003c/a>, but also turbocharging \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/08/1229641751/ai-deepfakes-election-risks-lawmakers-tech-companies-artificial-intelligence\">election-season fraud\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/31/1152652093/ai-artificial-intelligence-bot-hiring-eeoc-discrimination\">automating hiring discrimination\u003c/a>. In 2023, many world-leading experts signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk\">statement on AI Risks\u003c/a> — “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” it reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we are watching: \u003c/strong>There are at least 29 bills pending in Sacramento alone in the 2023–2024 legislative year focused on some aspect of artificial intelligence, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/02/14/ai-bills-state-legislatures-deepfakes-bias-discrimination\">Axios\u003c/a>. More are expected to roll out in the near future, which is why the following list is a partial one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11976121\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-3.40.49%E2%80%AFPM-e1708041434811.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2398\" height=\"863\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-3.40.49 PM-e1708041434811.png 2398w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-3.40.49 PM-e1708041434811-800x288.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-3.40.49 PM-e1708041434811-1020x367.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-3.40.49 PM-e1708041434811-160x58.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-3.40.49 PM-e1708041434811-1536x553.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-3.40.49 PM-e1708041434811-2048x737.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-3.40.49 PM-e1708041434811-1920x691.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2398px) 100vw, 2398px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The opposing view: \u003c/strong>“While I think that these types of regulatory guidelines are good, I’m not sure how effective they will be,” said Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley School of Information professor specializing in digital forensics, misinformation, and human perception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The bottom line:\u003c/strong> Farid added, “I don’t think it makes sense for individual states to try to regulate in this space, but if any state is going to do it, it should be California. The upside of state regulation is that it puts more pressure on the federal government to act so that we don’t end up with a chaotic state-by-state regulation of tech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t have a patchwork of state laws,” agrees Grace Gedye, an AI Policy Analyst at Consumer Reports. But, she added, “We definitely can’t hold our breath [for Congress to act] because we could be waiting 10 or 20 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In the absence of Congressional action, California often takes the lead with new legislation to reign in tech. This was true for privacy and social media, and now it looks to be playing out the same way for generative AI.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1708104576,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":931},"headData":{"title":"California Lawmakers Take On AI Regulation With a Host of Bills | KQED","description":"In the absence of Congressional action, California often takes the lead with new legislation to reign in tech. This was true for privacy and social media, and now it looks to be playing out the same way for generative AI.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Lawmakers Take On AI Regulation With a Host of Bills","datePublished":"2024-02-16T15:30:17.000Z","dateModified":"2024-02-16T17:29:36.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/01e312da-4048-4d9b-beff-b1170111f3b4/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11976097/california-lawmakers-take-on-ai-regulation-with-a-host-of-bills","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s been eight months since Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the outfit that gave us ChatGPT, urged U.S. senators to \u003cem>please\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO0J2Yw7usM\"> pass new laws\u003c/a> to force accountability from the big players, like OpenAI investor Microsoft, as well as Amazon, Google and Meta. “The number of companies is going to be small, just because of the resources required, and so I think there needs to be incredible scrutiny on us and our competitors,” Altman said in May of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, no. That’s not what has happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I would love to have one unified, federal law that effectively addresses AI safety. Congress has not passed such a law. Congress has not even come close to passing such a law.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I would love to have one unified, federal law that effectively addresses AI safety. Congress has \u003ca href=\"https://techpost.bsa.org/2024/02/06/bsa-member-roundtable-what-do-we-expect-from-congress-on-tech-policy-in-2024/\">not passed such a law\u003c/a>. Congress has not even come close to passing such a law,” said Democratic State Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco, one of a growing number of California lawmakers rolling out legislation that could provide a model for other states to follow, if not the federal government. Wiener argues his \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047\">Senate Bill 1047\u003c/a> is the most ambitious proposal so far in the country, and given that he was just named Senate Budget chair, he is arguably the best positioned at the state capitol to pass aggressive legislation that is also well-funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 would require companies building the largest and most powerful AI models — not the wee startups — to test for safety before releasing those models to the public. What does that mean? Here’s some language from the legislation as currently written:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“If not properly subject to human controls, future development in artificial intelligence may also have the potential to be used to create novel threats to public safety and security, including by enabling the creation and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, such as biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons, as well as weapons with cyber-offensive capabilities.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>AI companies would have to tell the state about testing protocols and guardrails, and if the tech causes “critical harm,” California’s attorney general can sue. Wiener says his legislation draws heavily on the Biden administration’s 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/\">executive order on AI\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>By software industry alliance BSA’s count, there are more than 400 AI-related bills pending across 44 states, but California’s size and sophistication make the roughly 30 bills pending in Sacramento most likely to be seen as legal landmarks, should they pass. Also, many of the largest companies working on generative AI models are based in the San Francisco Bay Area. OpenAI is based in San Francisco; so are Anthropic, Databricks and Scale AI. Meta is based in Menlo Park. Google is based in Mountain View. Seattle-based Microsoft and Amazon have offices in the San Francisco Bay Area. According to the think tank Brookings, more than 60% of generative AI jobs posted in the year ending in July 2023 were clustered in just 10 metro areas in the U.S.,\u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/articles/new-data-shows-that-without-intervention-generative-ai-jobs-will-continue-to-cluster-in-the-same-big-tech-hubs/\"> led far and away by the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>The FTC and other regulators are exploring how to use \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/ftc-proposes-new-protections-combat-ai-impersonation-individuals?utm_source=govdelivery\">existing laws\u003c/a> to rein in AI developers and nefarious individuals and organizations using AI to break the law, but many experts say that’s not going to be enough. Lina Khan, who heads the Federal Trade Commission, raised this question during an FTC\u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events/2024/01/ftc-tech-summit\"> summit on AI\u003c/a> last month: “Will a handful of dominant firms concentrate control over these key tools, locking us into a future of their choosing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The big picture: \u003c/strong>By now, you’ve probably gotten the memo: Large AI models are everywhere and doing everything — developing \u003ca href=\"https://news.mit.edu/2020/artificial-intelligence-identifies-new-antibiotic-0220\">new antibiotics\u003c/a> and helping humans \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/use-ai-talk-to-whales-save-life-on-earth/\">communicate with whales\u003c/a>, but also turbocharging \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/08/1229641751/ai-deepfakes-election-risks-lawmakers-tech-companies-artificial-intelligence\">election-season fraud\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/31/1152652093/ai-artificial-intelligence-bot-hiring-eeoc-discrimination\">automating hiring discrimination\u003c/a>. In 2023, many world-leading experts signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk\">statement on AI Risks\u003c/a> — “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” it reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we are watching: \u003c/strong>There are at least 29 bills pending in Sacramento alone in the 2023–2024 legislative year focused on some aspect of artificial intelligence, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/02/14/ai-bills-state-legislatures-deepfakes-bias-discrimination\">Axios\u003c/a>. More are expected to roll out in the near future, which is why the following list is a partial one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11976121\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-3.40.49%E2%80%AFPM-e1708041434811.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2398\" height=\"863\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-3.40.49 PM-e1708041434811.png 2398w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-3.40.49 PM-e1708041434811-800x288.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-3.40.49 PM-e1708041434811-1020x367.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-3.40.49 PM-e1708041434811-160x58.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-3.40.49 PM-e1708041434811-1536x553.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-3.40.49 PM-e1708041434811-2048x737.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-3.40.49 PM-e1708041434811-1920x691.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2398px) 100vw, 2398px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The opposing view: \u003c/strong>“While I think that these types of regulatory guidelines are good, I’m not sure how effective they will be,” said Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley School of Information professor specializing in digital forensics, misinformation, and human perception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The bottom line:\u003c/strong> Farid added, “I don’t think it makes sense for individual states to try to regulate in this space, but if any state is going to do it, it should be California. The upside of state regulation is that it puts more pressure on the federal government to act so that we don’t end up with a chaotic state-by-state regulation of tech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t have a patchwork of state laws,” agrees Grace Gedye, an AI Policy Analyst at Consumer Reports. But, she added, “We definitely can’t hold our breath [for Congress to act] because we could be waiting 10 or 20 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11976097/california-lawmakers-take-on-ai-regulation-with-a-host-of-bills","authors":["251"],"categories":["news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_2114","news_32668","news_27626","news_33542","news_33543","news_353","news_32029","news_1631"],"featImg":"news_11976118","label":"news"},"news_11975890":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11975890","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11975890","score":null,"sort":[1708016450000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"are-californians-benefiting-from-a-370-million-workforce-program","title":"Are Californians Benefiting From a $370 Million Workforce Program?","publishDate":1708016450,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Are Californians Benefiting From a $370 Million Workforce Program? | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>At 47, Ibrahim Mohamed doesn’t fit the typical image of a college intern. When he arrived in the U.S. from Sudan in 2016, he went online to look for a steady job and decided he wanted to be an electrician at a water treatment facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, he started his internship, which is part of a state program known as a “\u003ca href=\"https://cwdb.ca.gov/initiatives/high-road-training-partnerships/\">High Road Training Partnership\u003c/a>.” The focus is on training workers for “high road” jobs, defined as those that pay a living wage, provide opportunities for promotion, guarantee safe working conditions, and may offer other benefits, such as a union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2014, California has put roughly $370 million toward High Road job training, said Erin Hickey, a spokesperson for the California Workforce Development Board, in an email. The board, which administers the program, refused multiple requests for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Peter O’Driscoll, executive director, Equitable Farm Initiative\"]‘In an agricultural (sector) that’s driven by low prices, the only place employers have to squeeze is workers.’[/pullquote]In Mohamed’s case, the money went to Jewish Vocational Service, a Bay Area nonprofit organization that worked with local water treatment districts and community colleges to create the internship. The water district is responsible for paying the interns, who work part-time, by way of an intermediary and at a rate of $27 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the internship doesn’t cover all of his bills, Mohamed is committed to it and the future it could hold. In 2019, he moved from West Oakland to settle in Pittsburg, about 45 minutes away, in order to take night classes at Los Medanos College and intern with the Contra Costa Water District two days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the week, he works as a programmer for a Canadian company. He started working there while living in Sudan. “It pays better,” he said, speaking of his programming job, “but it’s not continuous.” Some projects pay as much as $3,000, he said, but other times, the company gives him no work at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need a stable job. I don’t like moving from place to place,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The High Road programs vary by industry. In some cases, like Mohamed’s internship, the state is trying to expand access to jobs that are already considered “high road,” even if the supply of jobs is limited or highly technical. In other cases, the money is meant to transform “low road” jobs — those with low pay, poor working conditions, and few opportunities for advancement — into better ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The High Road program is an improvement compared to many other workforce programs, which often prioritize training people for jobs regardless of the quality, said Laura Dresser, the associate director of the High Road Strategy Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She helped coin the term “high road” and served as a consultant to California’s workforce programs in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have made similar efforts, she said California’s program is larger and more systematic. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has allocated most of the money and tried to focus on jobs that promote sustainability. High Road jobs are also a part of his \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/8.31.23-Career-Education-Executive-Order.pdf\">Master Plan for Career Education (PDF)\u003c/a>, to be released later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, as the state faces a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/01/newsom-budget-california/\">$38 billion budget deficit \u003c/a>for the 2024–25 fiscal year, Newsom recently proposed cutting roughly $100 million from workforce development, most of which comes from High Road Training Partnerships or related programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A job program that helps employers, too\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state’s High Road program is designed to be a “partnership,” something that’s mutually beneficial for both employers and workers, Hickey said in the email. As Mohamed looks for a stable job, the water treatment industry is aging, with a higher percentage of \u003ca href=\"https://coeccc.net/california/2023/03/california-workforce-needs-in-the-water-wastewater-industry/\">skilled workers ready to retire\u003c/a> than in other professions across the state, according to a 2023 report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a “silver tsunami,” said Steven Currie, the workforce development program manager for the Contra Costa Water District. He said the district is also trying to diversify its staff. An internal survey of employees found that the water district is disproportionately white and male compared to the county population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975894\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10.jpg\" alt=\"Gloved hands hold a yellow device with a digital display.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instrumentation intern Ibrahim Mohamed holds a temperature calibrator while conducting a maintenance check on a motor-bearing temperature sensor inside a Contra Costa Water District pumping plant at the Antioch Service Center in Oakley on Jan. 30, 2024. The maintenance check was performed as part of a CalMatters media tour of the facility, to highlight state investment in job training. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few decades ago, the district had a pipeline of skilled labor from a nearby paper and steel mill and from employees at the oil refineries near Concord and Martinez. The paper mill is gone now, the steel mill is \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/01/20/end-of-a-bay-area-era-pittsburgs-steel-mill-idles-amid-sale-to-japanese-company/\">about to close\u003c/a>, and many of the oil refineries are shifting to renewable energy. A job posting for an electrician that used to get 25 to 30 applications now sees less than half that, said Matthew Novak, the district’s maintenance manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past six years, Jewish Vocational Service has received a series of state grants, totaling just shy of $3 million, to help create a pipeline of new talent for the water and wastewater industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the jobs come with benefits, such as health care and a pension, and the wages are good — with the lowest salary starting at around \u003ca href=\"https://www.baywork.org/careers/\">$65,000 a year\u003c/a> — these positions require years of specialized training that can be hard to come by, said Elizabeth Toups, a senior manager for the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohamed has about two years of experience, but the specific position he wants, known as an instrument technician, requires five years. The Contra Costa Water District has seven employees working in that role, and even if he had the experience, none of those positions are currently open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its reports to the state, Jewish Vocational Service said the number of job placements in the water and wastewater industry fell below expectations. Toups said many trainees ultimately find work in other fields that need specialized electricians, such as construction or electric vehicle manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not necessarily a loss, as far as we’re concerned,” she said. “Those people are getting jobs, and they’re getting that valuable experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s working in workforce training?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In other cases, however, the outcomes have been mixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the Miguel Contreras Foundation, a nonprofit training partner of the Los Angeles AFL-CIO, received nearly $650,000 to train electric bus mechanics in the San Gabriel Valley. The largest participating employer, Proterra, hired 11 of the participants, but the company — once \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/09/what-led-to-ev-darling-proterras-bankruptcy/\">heralded as a leader\u003c/a> in electric vehicle technology — filed for bankruptcy not long after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same year, the nonprofit organization Equitable Food Initiative submitted a proposal to help “improve the wages and working conditions for more farmworkers in the state” while helping farms mitigate climate change. With a $600,000 state grant, the organization taught several farm operators how to reduce waste and increase recycling and composting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s helped the workers a little because the fields are cleaner, and we’ve learned how to recycle, how to separate plastic, cardboard, and aluminum,” said Benancio Estrada Martinez, the harvest manager at GoodFarms, which grows strawberries in Santa Maria. It was one of three businesses that participated in the Equitable Food Initiative’s High Road program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As large retailers face pressure to cut costs and reduce greenhouse gasses, they put that pressure on smaller suppliers like GoodFarms, said Peter O’Driscoll, the executive director of the Equitable Farm Initiative. He said this program provided workers and employers an opportunity to jointly decide how their industry could further cut emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By selling its cardboard to a local recycling company, the farm has made at least $7,000, money that the workers decide how to spend. Current ideas include a raffle, a barbecue, or splitting the proceeds evenly between the workers, said Gabriela Gamez, who oversees the project, known as the Green Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lunches, barbecues, things like that — I don’t think we’re going to pretend that’s a life-changing experience for the worker,” O’Driscoll said. Creating a system that yields more benefits for the workers would require reforming the industry. “In an agricultural (sector) that’s driven by low prices, the only place employers have to squeeze is workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the UCLA Labor Center released a state-funded \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Eval_FINAL-REPORT-2.pdf\">evaluation (PDF)\u003c/a> of the High Road programs, which primarily described what programs did without using any quantitative performance metrics. The team recently received another grant from the state and will release a second evaluation in stages over the next two years. The final piece of that evaluation will include a new method to assess success, one that doesn’t focus on metrics that workforce programs typically use, such as wages and employment rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mohamed, the most important outcome is getting a full-time job. The nearby East Bay Municipal Utilities District recently lowered the experience level needed for entry-level instrument technicians, and Mohamed said he’d consider applying there if an opportunity arises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Municipal Utilities District has a location in Walnut Creek, which is about 20 minutes from Pittsburg. “Maybe I work in Walnut Creek,” he said. Otherwise, he may need to move again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as I get my foot in the door, I’m going to do it,” he said. “If I need to move, I’m going to do it. I’m not going to hesitate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Financial support for this story was provided by the Smidt Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"State officials want to prepare more Californians for good jobs — those that pay a stable, living wage and offer other benefits, such as a pathway for promotions. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1708019491,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1704},"headData":{"title":"Are Californians Benefiting From a $370 Million Workforce Program? | KQED","description":"State officials want to prepare more Californians for good jobs — those that pay a stable, living wage and offer other benefits, such as a pathway for promotions. 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When he arrived in the U.S. from Sudan in 2016, he went online to look for a steady job and decided he wanted to be an electrician at a water treatment facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, he started his internship, which is part of a state program known as a “\u003ca href=\"https://cwdb.ca.gov/initiatives/high-road-training-partnerships/\">High Road Training Partnership\u003c/a>.” The focus is on training workers for “high road” jobs, defined as those that pay a living wage, provide opportunities for promotion, guarantee safe working conditions, and may offer other benefits, such as a union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2014, California has put roughly $370 million toward High Road job training, said Erin Hickey, a spokesperson for the California Workforce Development Board, in an email. The board, which administers the program, refused multiple requests for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘In an agricultural (sector) that’s driven by low prices, the only place employers have to squeeze is workers.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Peter O’Driscoll, executive director, Equitable Farm Initiative","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In Mohamed’s case, the money went to Jewish Vocational Service, a Bay Area nonprofit organization that worked with local water treatment districts and community colleges to create the internship. The water district is responsible for paying the interns, who work part-time, by way of an intermediary and at a rate of $27 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the internship doesn’t cover all of his bills, Mohamed is committed to it and the future it could hold. In 2019, he moved from West Oakland to settle in Pittsburg, about 45 minutes away, in order to take night classes at Los Medanos College and intern with the Contra Costa Water District two days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the week, he works as a programmer for a Canadian company. He started working there while living in Sudan. “It pays better,” he said, speaking of his programming job, “but it’s not continuous.” Some projects pay as much as $3,000, he said, but other times, the company gives him no work at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need a stable job. I don’t like moving from place to place,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The High Road programs vary by industry. In some cases, like Mohamed’s internship, the state is trying to expand access to jobs that are already considered “high road,” even if the supply of jobs is limited or highly technical. In other cases, the money is meant to transform “low road” jobs — those with low pay, poor working conditions, and few opportunities for advancement — into better ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The High Road program is an improvement compared to many other workforce programs, which often prioritize training people for jobs regardless of the quality, said Laura Dresser, the associate director of the High Road Strategy Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She helped coin the term “high road” and served as a consultant to California’s workforce programs in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have made similar efforts, she said California’s program is larger and more systematic. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has allocated most of the money and tried to focus on jobs that promote sustainability. High Road jobs are also a part of his \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/8.31.23-Career-Education-Executive-Order.pdf\">Master Plan for Career Education (PDF)\u003c/a>, to be released later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, as the state faces a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/01/newsom-budget-california/\">$38 billion budget deficit \u003c/a>for the 2024–25 fiscal year, Newsom recently proposed cutting roughly $100 million from workforce development, most of which comes from High Road Training Partnerships or related programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A job program that helps employers, too\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state’s High Road program is designed to be a “partnership,” something that’s mutually beneficial for both employers and workers, Hickey said in the email. As Mohamed looks for a stable job, the water treatment industry is aging, with a higher percentage of \u003ca href=\"https://coeccc.net/california/2023/03/california-workforce-needs-in-the-water-wastewater-industry/\">skilled workers ready to retire\u003c/a> than in other professions across the state, according to a 2023 report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a “silver tsunami,” said Steven Currie, the workforce development program manager for the Contra Costa Water District. He said the district is also trying to diversify its staff. An internal survey of employees found that the water district is disproportionately white and male compared to the county population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975894\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10.jpg\" alt=\"Gloved hands hold a yellow device with a digital display.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instrumentation intern Ibrahim Mohamed holds a temperature calibrator while conducting a maintenance check on a motor-bearing temperature sensor inside a Contra Costa Water District pumping plant at the Antioch Service Center in Oakley on Jan. 30, 2024. The maintenance check was performed as part of a CalMatters media tour of the facility, to highlight state investment in job training. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few decades ago, the district had a pipeline of skilled labor from a nearby paper and steel mill and from employees at the oil refineries near Concord and Martinez. The paper mill is gone now, the steel mill is \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/01/20/end-of-a-bay-area-era-pittsburgs-steel-mill-idles-amid-sale-to-japanese-company/\">about to close\u003c/a>, and many of the oil refineries are shifting to renewable energy. A job posting for an electrician that used to get 25 to 30 applications now sees less than half that, said Matthew Novak, the district’s maintenance manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past six years, Jewish Vocational Service has received a series of state grants, totaling just shy of $3 million, to help create a pipeline of new talent for the water and wastewater industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the jobs come with benefits, such as health care and a pension, and the wages are good — with the lowest salary starting at around \u003ca href=\"https://www.baywork.org/careers/\">$65,000 a year\u003c/a> — these positions require years of specialized training that can be hard to come by, said Elizabeth Toups, a senior manager for the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohamed has about two years of experience, but the specific position he wants, known as an instrument technician, requires five years. The Contra Costa Water District has seven employees working in that role, and even if he had the experience, none of those positions are currently open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its reports to the state, Jewish Vocational Service said the number of job placements in the water and wastewater industry fell below expectations. Toups said many trainees ultimately find work in other fields that need specialized electricians, such as construction or electric vehicle manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not necessarily a loss, as far as we’re concerned,” she said. “Those people are getting jobs, and they’re getting that valuable experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s working in workforce training?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In other cases, however, the outcomes have been mixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the Miguel Contreras Foundation, a nonprofit training partner of the Los Angeles AFL-CIO, received nearly $650,000 to train electric bus mechanics in the San Gabriel Valley. The largest participating employer, Proterra, hired 11 of the participants, but the company — once \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/09/what-led-to-ev-darling-proterras-bankruptcy/\">heralded as a leader\u003c/a> in electric vehicle technology — filed for bankruptcy not long after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same year, the nonprofit organization Equitable Food Initiative submitted a proposal to help “improve the wages and working conditions for more farmworkers in the state” while helping farms mitigate climate change. With a $600,000 state grant, the organization taught several farm operators how to reduce waste and increase recycling and composting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s helped the workers a little because the fields are cleaner, and we’ve learned how to recycle, how to separate plastic, cardboard, and aluminum,” said Benancio Estrada Martinez, the harvest manager at GoodFarms, which grows strawberries in Santa Maria. It was one of three businesses that participated in the Equitable Food Initiative’s High Road program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As large retailers face pressure to cut costs and reduce greenhouse gasses, they put that pressure on smaller suppliers like GoodFarms, said Peter O’Driscoll, the executive director of the Equitable Farm Initiative. He said this program provided workers and employers an opportunity to jointly decide how their industry could further cut emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By selling its cardboard to a local recycling company, the farm has made at least $7,000, money that the workers decide how to spend. Current ideas include a raffle, a barbecue, or splitting the proceeds evenly between the workers, said Gabriela Gamez, who oversees the project, known as the Green Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lunches, barbecues, things like that — I don’t think we’re going to pretend that’s a life-changing experience for the worker,” O’Driscoll said. Creating a system that yields more benefits for the workers would require reforming the industry. “In an agricultural (sector) that’s driven by low prices, the only place employers have to squeeze is workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the UCLA Labor Center released a state-funded \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Eval_FINAL-REPORT-2.pdf\">evaluation (PDF)\u003c/a> of the High Road programs, which primarily described what programs did without using any quantitative performance metrics. The team recently received another grant from the state and will release a second evaluation in stages over the next two years. The final piece of that evaluation will include a new method to assess success, one that doesn’t focus on metrics that workforce programs typically use, such as wages and employment rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mohamed, the most important outcome is getting a full-time job. The nearby East Bay Municipal Utilities District recently lowered the experience level needed for entry-level instrument technicians, and Mohamed said he’d consider applying there if an opportunity arises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Municipal Utilities District has a location in Walnut Creek, which is about 20 minutes from Pittsburg. “Maybe I work in Walnut Creek,” he said. Otherwise, he may need to move again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as I get my foot in the door, I’m going to do it,” he said. “If I need to move, I’m going to do it. I’m not going to hesitate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Financial support for this story was provided by the Smidt Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11975890/are-californians-benefiting-from-a-370-million-workforce-program","authors":["byline_news_11975890"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_295","news_27626","news_1760","news_1631","news_20287","news_31828"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11975893","label":"news_18481"},"news_11973657":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11973657","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11973657","score":null,"sort":[1706303853000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ai-software-vulnerable-to-attacks-by-both-professional-and-amateur-hackers","title":"AI Software Vulnerable to Attacks by Both Professional and Amateur Hackers","publishDate":1706303853,"format":"audio","headTitle":"AI Software Vulnerable to Attacks by Both Professional and Amateur Hackers | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A few weeks ago, white hat hackers — remember, those are the good kind — identified a vulnerability in the software code powering \u003ca href=\"https://chattr.ai\">Chattr\u003c/a>, a Florida-based “AI-powered” hiring platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backdoor these \u003ca href=\"https://mrbruh.com/chattr/\">hackers found gave them easy access\u003c/a> to names, phone numbers, email addresses, passwords and more. Because Chattr is a \u003cem>hiring\u003c/em> platform, personal details belong to job seekers and hiring managers across the country, mostly in fast food and retail.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Paul, New Zealand University student and hacker hobbyist\"]‘It’s a very competitive market, so people have to get their products up and going before anyone else can. Because of that, shortcuts get made.’[/pullquote]“A slip-up, a misconfiguration when creating their website and everything that goes with it,” said 19-year-old Paul, who asked that we not use his full name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s a New Zealand university student and sort of a hacker hobbyist. He writes a cybersecurity blog using the pen name “MrBruh,” and his \u003ca href=\"https://mrbruh.com/chattr/\">post\u003c/a> about Chattr is titled, “How I pwned half of America’s fast food chains, simultaneously.” The term “pwned,” by the way, means compromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very competitive market, so people have to get their products up and going before anyone else can. Because of that, shortcuts get made,” Paul said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul and a couple of \u003ca href=\"https://kibty.town/blog/chattr\">friends\u003c/a> who conducted the hack with him said they contacted Chattr. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The company didn’t respond to them personally, but in a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7151289760647467008/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">LinkedIn post\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, wrote,\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “Our engineering team acted swiftly, initiating a comprehensive investigation to determine the extent of the breach. We are pleased to report that the vulnerability has been fixed.”\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Paul confirmed Chattr fixed the problem within a day of being alerted. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are plenty of other chatbot vulnerabilities yet to be discovered, and not always by \u003cem>white\u003c/em> hat hackers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already live in an era of proliferating ransomware and malware. And we’re adding a new layer of vulnerabilities,” said Irina Raicu, who directs the Internet Ethics Program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raicu noted that, in the age of the internet, most companies have systems in place to protect against malicious hackers, but they’re widely understood to be inadequate.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Irina Raicu, director of internet ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University\"]‘It’s also a huge problem for the government, for national security, for education, for the entire healthcare system.’[/pullquote]“Yes, and not just companies. It’s also a huge problem for the government, for national security, for education, for the entire healthcare system,” Raicu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artificial intelligence can be helpful for those tasked with protecting software systems. But the same technology serves the other side of the conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All types of cyber threat actors — state and non-state, skilled and less-skilled — are already using AI, to varying degrees,” as one \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/report/impact-of-ai-on-cyber-threat\">recent report\u003c/a> from the U.K.’s National Security Cyber Centre put it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same report goes on to warn the growing sophistication of AI “lowers the barrier” for amateur cybercriminals and hackers to access systems and gather information, extract sensitive data, paralyze computer systems, and demand ransoms.[aside postID=news_11966824 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/DeepFakeVid-1020x676.jpg']In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.idtheftcenter.org/post/2023-annual-data-breach-report-reveals-record-number-of-compromises-72-percent-increase-over-previous-high/\">report released \u003c/a>on Jan. 25, the Identity Theft Resource Center, which tracks publicly available information about data breaches, noted: “The availability of compromised consumer data and the use of large language models [LLMs] is already resulting in vastly improved phishing lures and highly effective social engineering attacks that are driving financial losses for businesses and individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/01/nist-identifies-types-cyberattacks-manipulate-behavior-ai-systems\">unsolved cybersecurity issues\u003c/a> with AI chatbots, Raicu said, are likely to make us all much more vulnerable on multiple fronts. Primarily because bad or confused actors inside and outside organizations now have tools that allow them to\u003ca href=\"https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/01/nist-identifies-types-cyberattacks-manipulate-behavior-ai-systems\"> corrupt the data\u003c/a> a chatbot is working with or \u003ca href=\"https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/14/worst-that-can-happen/\">have it execute commands\u003c/a> that should not be executed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hearing all this talk about AI governance and about responsible development and deployment of AI systems. Those conversations, if they don’t include a component about cybersecurity, then they’re not really doing what they’re claiming to be doing,” Raicu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some states, like \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/databreach/reporting#:~:text=California%20law%20requires%20a%20business,acquired,%20by%20an%20unauthorized%20person.\">California\u003c/a>, businesses and state agencies are legally required to take reasonable measures to protect personal information and report big data breaches to affected consumers — for what it’s worth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Experts stress widespread vulnerabilities as generative AI heightens traditional cybersecurity concerns. 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He writes a cybersecurity blog using the pen name “MrBruh,” and his \u003ca href=\"https://mrbruh.com/chattr/\">post\u003c/a> about Chattr is titled, “How I pwned half of America’s fast food chains, simultaneously.” The term “pwned,” by the way, means compromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very competitive market, so people have to get their products up and going before anyone else can. 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We are pleased to report that the vulnerability has been fixed.”\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Paul confirmed Chattr fixed the problem within a day of being alerted. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are plenty of other chatbot vulnerabilities yet to be discovered, and not always by \u003cem>white\u003c/em> hat hackers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already live in an era of proliferating ransomware and malware. 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It’s also a huge problem for the government, for national security, for education, for the entire healthcare system,” Raicu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artificial intelligence can be helpful for those tasked with protecting software systems. 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