California privacy regulators will meet this week to review proposed rules that could, once again, put the Golden State on the leading edge of reining in a fast-developing technology. This time the target is generative artificial intelligence.

The California Privacy Protection Agency on Nov. 27 released 17 pages of draft AI regulations. While each page contains a bold-ink header alerting readers that the provisions are meant only to spur discussion and are not part of official rulemaking, they offer clear insight about where agency board members are looking to place guardrails.