California Tests Whether AI Can Cross Professional Licensing Lines

California’s top consumer regulator is signaling a potentially far-reaching approach to policing artificial intelligence: If state law requires a human to hold a license to perform a service, deploying AI to perform the same function may not provide a way around that requirement. Rohit Chopra, secretary of California’s new Business and Consumer Services Agency , said the agency will investigate businesses’ use of AI, chatbots and other technologies, including whether some applications violate pr