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Artificial intelligence is an energy hog, and every query to ChatGPT is like running a lightbulb for 20 minutes, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/10/nx-s1-5028558/artificial-intelligences-thirst-for-electricity\">research scientist recently told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artificial intelligence is so wasteful, in fact, that its rapid spread could endanger California’s goal of eliminating all carbon emissions by 2045 — even as AI companies may be \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/10/ca-corporate-tax-revenue-surge/\">flooding the state treasury with tax revenue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conundrum has legislators considering what was once unthinkable: Bringing back nuclear power as a driver of innovation and economic growth, sort of like it was the 1960s all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers are pushing for exemptions to the state’s 49-year-old moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants; they’re also mulling a possible future for the once-left-for-dead Diablo Canyon on the Central Coast, the state’s last operational plant whose operator, Pacific Gas & Electric, said it is prepared for the possibility of the plant staying open longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are some of the signs of a subtle shift among state legislators and agencies, who just a few years ago seemed assured in their determination to close the book on nuclear power in California. They are being encouraged by a few outside influences: \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/climate-google-environmental-report-greenhouse-gases-emissions-3ccf95b9125831d66e676e811ece8a18\">Sweating their own emissions goals,\u003c/a> the state’s Big Tech companies have begun national efforts to rejuvenate the carbon-neutral energy source. And last summer, federal lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/governing-laws/advance-act.html\">overwhelmingly passed a bill\u003c/a>, signed by President Biden, to accelerate the development of nuclear reactors and new technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been a couple times where there’s been momentum, where people use the word ‘renaissance’” around nuclear energy, said Maureen Zawalick, PG&E vice president of business and technical services. “But nothing like it is now, where there’s bipartisan support, a significant amount of federal funding, programs and incentives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic State Sen. Henry Stern, a member of the Senate Energy Committee and an environmental attorney, was mentored by anti-nuclear advocates/environmentalists and has been a critic of Diablo Canyon and PG&E. But he, too, believes “there’s going to be broader and broader bipartisan support to just put this stuff on the table,” he said, referencing certain forms of nuclear energy in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible artificial intelligence could grow more energy efficient, reducing the need for new power plants. Energy stocks \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/deepseek-is-upending-wall-streets-big-ai-power-trade-0e649925?st=agHiPL&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">recently sold off\u003c/a> after a Chinese company, DeepSeek, unveiled a powerful AI model it said was produced with a fraction of the resources used by its American rivals. The accuracy of those claims and how DeepSeek might change industry practices are hotly debated.[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='nuclear-power']Even assuming AI continues to stoke demand for electricity, nuclear power remains anathema to much of the statehouse, which in the last legislative session kept a measure to partially lift the moratorium bottled up in committee. Reactors are consistent sources of energy but also incredibly expensive to build and maintain, requiring stringent regulatory oversight, staffing, and upkeep. Disposing of radioactive waste is a time-intensive process with potential environmental harms, and there are always concerns of catastrophic outcomes at nuclear facilities: reactor meltdowns, cyberattacks, and other security threats. Building new facilities in the state means lifting the moratorium and clearing not only the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission but also a thicket of California agencies like the Public Utilities Commission, Water Resources Control Board and, depending on site location, potentially the Coastal Commission and State Lands Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are among the reasons nuclear power skeptics are dubious of a comeback. Critics similarly question the merits of an emerging, allegedly safer form of nuclear power known as small modular reactors and whether tech companies are committed in their push for nuclear or if they’ll lose interest once they face the inevitable headwinds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nuclear is desperate to seem relevant, new, and improved,” said Sharon Squassoni, a research professor at George Washington University who specializes in the risks posed by nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Of the use of nuclear power to power AI she added that “it’s a marriage that looks good on paper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Big Tech ushers in a round of nuclear hype\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Renewed interest in nuclear harkens back to earlier times. President Richard Nixon \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/science/earth/19antinuke.html\">once called\u003c/a> for the construction of 1,000 nuclear reactors in the United States by the year 2000. That moonshot missed by roughly 900 reactors, and there are approximately 90 commercial reactors today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech companies have signaled that they’d like to boost those numbers — and they’ve already taken steps outside of California to harness nuclear power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-cloud/blog/2024/09/20/accelerating-the-addition-of-carbon-free-energy-an-update-on-progress/\">Citing the need\u003c/a> to add “carbon-free electricity and capacity in the grids where we operate,” \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/8f47ba63a7aab8831a7805dfde0e2c39\">Microsoft signed a deal\u003c/a> in late September to eventually get one of the reactors at Three Mile Island in southeastern Pennsylvania, site of a partial meltdown in 1979, back up and running. In mid-October, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/amazon-nuclear-small-modular-reactor-net-carbon-zero\">Amazon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-kairos-power-nuclear-energy-agreement/\">Google\u003c/a> separately announced agreements with energy companies—one of which, Kairos Power, is based in California—that are in the business of designing small modular reactors. “The grid needs new electricity sources to support AI technologies that are powering major scientific advances, improving services for businesses and customers, and driving national competitiveness and economic growth,” \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-kairos-power-nuclear-energy-agreement/\">Google wrote\u003c/a> in a statement about its deal with Kairos Power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sustainability.atmeta.com/blog/2024/12/03/accelerating-the-next-wave-of-nuclear-to-power-ai-innovation/\">Meta announced\u003c/a> in early December that it was seeking proposals from nuclear energy developers who could help in the pursuit of “AI innovation and sustainability objectives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big tech’s ambitions for new plants are especially focused on small modular reactors. The idea behind the reactors is that they’d function as mini-reactors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/what-are-small-modular-reactors-smrs\">producing up to roughly one-third of the energy\u003c/a> as a conventional facility, but with factory-designed components that could be shipped to a predetermined location. This would, in theory, cut down on costs, allow for more flexible siting, and reduce the lengthy construction period typical for larger nuclear reactors. The International Atomic Energy Agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.iaea.org/topics/small-modular-reactors\">characterized\u003c/a> proposed designs as simpler and safer than already-running reactors, and more recently, the Department of Energy\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-announces-900-million-build-and-deploy-next-generation-nuclear\"> accepted applications\u003c/a> to help fund the design and development of these smaller reactors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that small reactors exist more in the abstract than in reality. “They’re totally unproven. They exist basically on a computer,” said Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under the Obama administration. “Nuclear reactors aren’t like software or social media products. They’re not fungible in the same way. … You can’t apply the tech bro mentality to these nuclear facilities, but that is what is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Squassoni \u003ca href=\"https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.gwu.edu/dist/7/1053/files/2024/04/NewNuclearRisk_Report_2024_v4-1-0b59385f1c7d4153.pdf\">released a study in April 2024 (PDF)\u003c/a> noting that, “Although they are marketed as new and advanced, small modular reactors so far feature few true innovations among the scores of designs. Quite a few are old wine in new bottles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other than Microsoft’s Three Mile Island investment, and a Bill Gates-backed venture in Wyoming, it’s hard to say which other states could someday house the tech industry’s hypothetical nuclear facilities — small reactors or otherwise. California is currently one of the only states that \u003cem>isn’t\u003c/em> an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/Nuclear_Power_Reactors_in_California_ada.pdf\">In 1976\u003c/a>, a California law placed a moratorium on the development of additional nuclear facility sites in the state until the federal government could come up with a permanent nuclear waste disposal plan. The moratorium was largely in response to environmentalist and anti-nuclear groups in California. Almost five decades later, the federal government still has not figured out a permanent disposal method. Nowadays, spent fuel often ends up in dry casks, which are generally considered a solid, but interim, solution for storing radioactive waste. California remains one of nine states with a nuclear energy moratorium, \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-nuclear-moratorium\">according to the Department of Energy\u003c/a>. Four states have repealed their moratoriums since 2016, and Illinois recently carved out an exemption for the construction of small modular reactors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Southern California Edison announced it would shutter reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Diego County \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2013-jun-07-la-me-0608-san-onofre-20130608-story.html\">due to defects in new steam generators\u003c/a>. That reduced California’s nuclear energy arsenal to just the two reactors at Diablo Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issues at San Onofre, in addition to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in Japan, further limited California lawmakers’ appetite for nuclear energy. Diablo Canyon was scheduled to shut down beginning in 2024, but those plans have been postponed a half-decade. The site’s two remaining reactors are a vital part of California’s power grid, even more so because of environmental concerns brought about by climate change, as well as the state’s growing energy needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The legislators trying to spark a chain reaction in the Capitol\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The world’s largest tech companies are racing to train and develop AI tools, which require immense amounts of electricity. The exact metrics, as far as total AI energy consumption is concerned, remain murky, largely because\u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/24066646/ai-electricity-energy-watts-generative-consumption\"> the tech industry has been murky\u003c/a> on the subject. It’s clear, though, that tech companies are reliant on big, windowless data centers to power AI, and that these data centers are extremely energy-intensive — and prevalent in California. The \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-12/california-data-centers-could-derail-clean-energy-goals\">reported in August\u003c/a> that the state has at least 270 data centers, many clustered, perhaps unsurprisingly, in Silicon Valley. Tech companies have eyed dozens more data centers up and down the state, the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sorts of statistics are a major concern for California lawmakers. “Tech is a new part of the equation because of data centers, AI, and all these things,” said Republican Assemblymember Josh Hoover, a proponent of nuclear energy from the Sacramento suburbs. “The reality is that even before all of that, our grid was not nearly prepared for the energy demands of a clean energy future. And so I am a big believer that nuclear energy needs to be part of that conversation.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"science_1995286,news_12020857,news_11987803\"]Hoover is referring to California’s power grid and the state’s mandatory transition to 100% carbon-free energy by 2045, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-renewable-energy-law-signed-20180910-story.html\">under a 2018 measure\u003c/a>. California has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/climate-change/2024/08/california-clean-power-progress-grid/\">made significant strides\u003c/a> toward the target but \u003ca href=\"https://gridclue.com/StateProfile?rs=California\">scores a low D- rating\u003c/a> for its resilience to extreme weather events and other disruptive threats, according to measurements by the nonprofit Grid Clue. Despite an ongoing shift to renewables, California is still heavily reliant on fossil fuels, and its grid is increasingly under peril because of wildfires, heat waves, and other weather events linked to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon provides roughly 9% of the state’s electricity, which is partly why Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/03/02/photos-governor-newsom-visits-diablo-canyon-power-plant/\">supported extending the use of its reactors to 2029 and 2030\u003c/a>. “That struck me as a courageous decision and the right decision, and I would hope that that’s reflective of his belief to look at all different energy sources,” said Republican Assemblymember Diane Dixon, who represents Newport Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for PG&E, which owns and operates Diablo Canyon, have typically adopted a defensive posture when asked about their nuclear facility and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/pge-bills-diablo-canyon-19821155.php\">cost overruns\u003c/a> it routinely incurs. But the utility company has been singing a different tune lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zawalick, the PG&E vice president, demurred when asked if she thinks Diablo Canyon will ultimately stay open past the station’s latest deadline. “We have to be asked by the state legislators to go longer than 2030,” she said. “But we will be ready, is what I say. And we’re planning to be.” She told CalMatters she hasn’t had any “formal” conversations with tech companies about Diablo Canyon’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern described Diablo Canyon as a “cost-suck” and “old,” adding, “If you were building new nuclear, you would not build it like Diablo Canyon.” But Stern conceded that San Onofre’s shutdown strained the state’s energy grid (it also led to more greenhouse gas production), and he’s come to accept Diablo Canyon’s role, at least for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, who represents Fresno and has co-sponsored nuclear energy legislation, also worries “about what would occur if a member of our energy portfolio was taken offline, how that would increase rates for the rest of us.” Hoover echoed Arambula’s view and said he wants Diablo Canyon to stay open indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An opening for small modular reactors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon is one (complicated) piece of the nuclear puzzle. Then there’s the separate conundrum of whether to roll back all, or some, of the state’s nuclear energy moratorium. As it stands, Republican lawmakers are the political faction that has pushed to change the moratorium. Last year, Dixon was a cosponsor of \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2092\">Assembly Bill 2092\u003c/a>, which would’ve asked the California Public Utilities Commission to conduct a feasibility studies about the possible benefits and effects of small modular reactors by the beginning of 2027. The bill never got a vote on the Assembly floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to have stretch goals,” Dixon said of the state’s zero emissions target. “But we have to be mindful of the impact on the local economy, on jobs, and driving businesses out of California. I want to at least start the process to study this important possible new alternative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another recent proposal, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab65\">Assembly Bill 65,\u003c/a> would’ve created a moratorium exemption for the development of small modular reactors. Hoover and Arambula were co-sponsors on AB 65, and Arambula said he hopes to introduce a similar measure in the 2025–26 legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2023, the last time lawmakers debated the bill to allow small modular reactors, Arambula was one of few Democratic politicians to publicly back pro-nuclear legislation. Los Angeles Democratic Assemblymember Rick Zbur, for instance, told his colleagues he couldn’t support the measure because, while he “used to be someone who believed that nuclear was part of the solution to a carbon-free future,” he changed his views after the 2011 nuclear power plant disaster in Japan. “I don’t think that the California public supports this,” he continued. “I don’t think that we need this to get to a carbon-free future.” (Zbur confirmed to CalMatters that his stance hasn’t changed of late.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other prominent Democratic politicians are beginning to sound more bullish on nuclear energy sources. Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco told CalMatters that he’s noticed “a gradual increased openness among Democrats to nuclear,” and that he thinks nuclear “should certainly be part of the conversation.” Stern, the Senate environment committee member, said he’s interested in giving consideration to some nuclear power bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern previously authored a law that required the California Energy Commission, in consultation with other state agencies, to write an assessment of commercially feasible energy sources. That assessment, \u003ca href=\"https://efiling.energy.ca.gov/Lists/DocketLog.aspx?docketnumber=21-ESR-01\">which was released in August 2024\u003c/a>, suggested more research and development into small modular reactors and recommended that the legislature pass a law to exempt such reactors from the state’s nuclear moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Newsom’s office left the door open to the possibility of small modular reactors and a nuclear moratorium exemption in California. “The Governor has always maintained an interest in new, promising technologies, including advancements in emerging nuclear power technologies, that follow strong safety, cost, and environmental considerations,” Newsom’s Deputy Director of Communications Daniel Villaseñor wrote to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Josh Becker, the new chair of the Senate Energy Committee, also left the door open to nuclear technologies in California: “Climate change is an urgent crisis demanding a comprehensive and proactive response,” the Silicon Valley Democrat wrote in a statement. “To address it effectively, we must consider every viable solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 2025–26 legislative session will be instructive in showing state lawmakers’ willingness to embrace nuclear energy. Any policy changes in California — followed by a hypothetical nuclear site selection process — would proceed at a slow, methodical pace, the exact opposite of how tech companies prefer to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to needing to get a carve-out from the state’s nuclear moratorium and approvals from various state and federal entities, nuclear plant builders could well face lawsuits and other pushback from anti-nuclear groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all those factors in mind, the legislative session will \u003cem>also \u003c/em>reveal whether tech companies feel emboldened to push for nuclear energy sites in California, or if they’re satisfied pursuing their energy needs in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, just because many key AI companies are based in California doesn’t mean their data centers have to be. The recent failed bills to permit some kind of nuclear power in California were proposed shortly before tech’s fast and furious incursion into the nuclear energy space and thus weren’t part of the industry’s 2023–24 legislative lobbying efforts. Public support and lobbying for the two bills came from a handful of relatively small pro-nuclear advocacy groups, as well as a handful of labor groups, and the Nuclear Energy Institute, a pro-nuclear trade association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too soon to tell how serious these tech firms are about promoting nuclear energy to power their electricity needs,” Squassoni said. “It could be a fad — it could be that once they get a real whiff of the costs and time it takes to build new plants, they may back off a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers who spoke to CalMatters said they aren’t against tech companies joining in on broader policy debates around California’s energy grid. Hoover said tech’s nascent nuclear interest may “allow for new conversations to happen,” while Wiener characterized the industry’s involvement as a “positive thing,” so long as companies participate in expanded clean energy initiatives that aren’t exclusively nuclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern, for his part, posited that tech’s interest “certainly doesn’t hurt the zeitgeist around nuclear being a less toxic and scary thing.” He added: “There’s some other incredible tech that, in a lot of cases, beats nuclear from a cost perspective. But it doesn’t quite make sense to me anymore that we don’t let nuclear compete in that contest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers are pushing for exemptions to the state’s 49-year-old moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants; they’re also mulling a possible future for the once-left-for-dead Diablo Canyon on the Central Coast, the state’s last operational plant whose operator, Pacific Gas & Electric, said it is prepared for the possibility of the plant staying open longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are some of the signs of a subtle shift among state legislators and agencies, who just a few years ago seemed assured in their determination to close the book on nuclear power in California. They are being encouraged by a few outside influences: \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/climate-google-environmental-report-greenhouse-gases-emissions-3ccf95b9125831d66e676e811ece8a18\">Sweating their own emissions goals,\u003c/a> the state’s Big Tech companies have begun national efforts to rejuvenate the carbon-neutral energy source. And last summer, federal lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/governing-laws/advance-act.html\">overwhelmingly passed a bill\u003c/a>, signed by President Biden, to accelerate the development of nuclear reactors and new technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been a couple times where there’s been momentum, where people use the word ‘renaissance’” around nuclear energy, said Maureen Zawalick, PG&E vice president of business and technical services. “But nothing like it is now, where there’s bipartisan support, a significant amount of federal funding, programs and incentives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic State Sen. Henry Stern, a member of the Senate Energy Committee and an environmental attorney, was mentored by anti-nuclear advocates/environmentalists and has been a critic of Diablo Canyon and PG&E. But he, too, believes “there’s going to be broader and broader bipartisan support to just put this stuff on the table,” he said, referencing certain forms of nuclear energy in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible artificial intelligence could grow more energy efficient, reducing the need for new power plants. Energy stocks \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/deepseek-is-upending-wall-streets-big-ai-power-trade-0e649925?st=agHiPL&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">recently sold off\u003c/a> after a Chinese company, DeepSeek, unveiled a powerful AI model it said was produced with a fraction of the resources used by its American rivals. The accuracy of those claims and how DeepSeek might change industry practices are hotly debated.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Even assuming AI continues to stoke demand for electricity, nuclear power remains anathema to much of the statehouse, which in the last legislative session kept a measure to partially lift the moratorium bottled up in committee. Reactors are consistent sources of energy but also incredibly expensive to build and maintain, requiring stringent regulatory oversight, staffing, and upkeep. Disposing of radioactive waste is a time-intensive process with potential environmental harms, and there are always concerns of catastrophic outcomes at nuclear facilities: reactor meltdowns, cyberattacks, and other security threats. Building new facilities in the state means lifting the moratorium and clearing not only the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission but also a thicket of California agencies like the Public Utilities Commission, Water Resources Control Board and, depending on site location, potentially the Coastal Commission and State Lands Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are among the reasons nuclear power skeptics are dubious of a comeback. Critics similarly question the merits of an emerging, allegedly safer form of nuclear power known as small modular reactors and whether tech companies are committed in their push for nuclear or if they’ll lose interest once they face the inevitable headwinds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nuclear is desperate to seem relevant, new, and improved,” said Sharon Squassoni, a research professor at George Washington University who specializes in the risks posed by nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Of the use of nuclear power to power AI she added that “it’s a marriage that looks good on paper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Big Tech ushers in a round of nuclear hype\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Renewed interest in nuclear harkens back to earlier times. President Richard Nixon \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/science/earth/19antinuke.html\">once called\u003c/a> for the construction of 1,000 nuclear reactors in the United States by the year 2000. That moonshot missed by roughly 900 reactors, and there are approximately 90 commercial reactors today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech companies have signaled that they’d like to boost those numbers — and they’ve already taken steps outside of California to harness nuclear power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-cloud/blog/2024/09/20/accelerating-the-addition-of-carbon-free-energy-an-update-on-progress/\">Citing the need\u003c/a> to add “carbon-free electricity and capacity in the grids where we operate,” \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/8f47ba63a7aab8831a7805dfde0e2c39\">Microsoft signed a deal\u003c/a> in late September to eventually get one of the reactors at Three Mile Island in southeastern Pennsylvania, site of a partial meltdown in 1979, back up and running. In mid-October, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/amazon-nuclear-small-modular-reactor-net-carbon-zero\">Amazon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-kairos-power-nuclear-energy-agreement/\">Google\u003c/a> separately announced agreements with energy companies—one of which, Kairos Power, is based in California—that are in the business of designing small modular reactors. “The grid needs new electricity sources to support AI technologies that are powering major scientific advances, improving services for businesses and customers, and driving national competitiveness and economic growth,” \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-kairos-power-nuclear-energy-agreement/\">Google wrote\u003c/a> in a statement about its deal with Kairos Power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sustainability.atmeta.com/blog/2024/12/03/accelerating-the-next-wave-of-nuclear-to-power-ai-innovation/\">Meta announced\u003c/a> in early December that it was seeking proposals from nuclear energy developers who could help in the pursuit of “AI innovation and sustainability objectives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big tech’s ambitions for new plants are especially focused on small modular reactors. The idea behind the reactors is that they’d function as mini-reactors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/what-are-small-modular-reactors-smrs\">producing up to roughly one-third of the energy\u003c/a> as a conventional facility, but with factory-designed components that could be shipped to a predetermined location. This would, in theory, cut down on costs, allow for more flexible siting, and reduce the lengthy construction period typical for larger nuclear reactors. The International Atomic Energy Agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.iaea.org/topics/small-modular-reactors\">characterized\u003c/a> proposed designs as simpler and safer than already-running reactors, and more recently, the Department of Energy\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-announces-900-million-build-and-deploy-next-generation-nuclear\"> accepted applications\u003c/a> to help fund the design and development of these smaller reactors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that small reactors exist more in the abstract than in reality. “They’re totally unproven. They exist basically on a computer,” said Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under the Obama administration. “Nuclear reactors aren’t like software or social media products. They’re not fungible in the same way. … You can’t apply the tech bro mentality to these nuclear facilities, but that is what is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Squassoni \u003ca href=\"https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.gwu.edu/dist/7/1053/files/2024/04/NewNuclearRisk_Report_2024_v4-1-0b59385f1c7d4153.pdf\">released a study in April 2024 (PDF)\u003c/a> noting that, “Although they are marketed as new and advanced, small modular reactors so far feature few true innovations among the scores of designs. Quite a few are old wine in new bottles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other than Microsoft’s Three Mile Island investment, and a Bill Gates-backed venture in Wyoming, it’s hard to say which other states could someday house the tech industry’s hypothetical nuclear facilities — small reactors or otherwise. California is currently one of the only states that \u003cem>isn’t\u003c/em> an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/Nuclear_Power_Reactors_in_California_ada.pdf\">In 1976\u003c/a>, a California law placed a moratorium on the development of additional nuclear facility sites in the state until the federal government could come up with a permanent nuclear waste disposal plan. The moratorium was largely in response to environmentalist and anti-nuclear groups in California. Almost five decades later, the federal government still has not figured out a permanent disposal method. Nowadays, spent fuel often ends up in dry casks, which are generally considered a solid, but interim, solution for storing radioactive waste. California remains one of nine states with a nuclear energy moratorium, \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-nuclear-moratorium\">according to the Department of Energy\u003c/a>. Four states have repealed their moratoriums since 2016, and Illinois recently carved out an exemption for the construction of small modular reactors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Southern California Edison announced it would shutter reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Diego County \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2013-jun-07-la-me-0608-san-onofre-20130608-story.html\">due to defects in new steam generators\u003c/a>. That reduced California’s nuclear energy arsenal to just the two reactors at Diablo Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issues at San Onofre, in addition to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in Japan, further limited California lawmakers’ appetite for nuclear energy. Diablo Canyon was scheduled to shut down beginning in 2024, but those plans have been postponed a half-decade. The site’s two remaining reactors are a vital part of California’s power grid, even more so because of environmental concerns brought about by climate change, as well as the state’s growing energy needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The legislators trying to spark a chain reaction in the Capitol\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The world’s largest tech companies are racing to train and develop AI tools, which require immense amounts of electricity. The exact metrics, as far as total AI energy consumption is concerned, remain murky, largely because\u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/24066646/ai-electricity-energy-watts-generative-consumption\"> the tech industry has been murky\u003c/a> on the subject. It’s clear, though, that tech companies are reliant on big, windowless data centers to power AI, and that these data centers are extremely energy-intensive — and prevalent in California. The \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-12/california-data-centers-could-derail-clean-energy-goals\">reported in August\u003c/a> that the state has at least 270 data centers, many clustered, perhaps unsurprisingly, in Silicon Valley. Tech companies have eyed dozens more data centers up and down the state, the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sorts of statistics are a major concern for California lawmakers. “Tech is a new part of the equation because of data centers, AI, and all these things,” said Republican Assemblymember Josh Hoover, a proponent of nuclear energy from the Sacramento suburbs. “The reality is that even before all of that, our grid was not nearly prepared for the energy demands of a clean energy future. And so I am a big believer that nuclear energy needs to be part of that conversation.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Hoover is referring to California’s power grid and the state’s mandatory transition to 100% carbon-free energy by 2045, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-renewable-energy-law-signed-20180910-story.html\">under a 2018 measure\u003c/a>. California has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/climate-change/2024/08/california-clean-power-progress-grid/\">made significant strides\u003c/a> toward the target but \u003ca href=\"https://gridclue.com/StateProfile?rs=California\">scores a low D- rating\u003c/a> for its resilience to extreme weather events and other disruptive threats, according to measurements by the nonprofit Grid Clue. Despite an ongoing shift to renewables, California is still heavily reliant on fossil fuels, and its grid is increasingly under peril because of wildfires, heat waves, and other weather events linked to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon provides roughly 9% of the state’s electricity, which is partly why Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/03/02/photos-governor-newsom-visits-diablo-canyon-power-plant/\">supported extending the use of its reactors to 2029 and 2030\u003c/a>. “That struck me as a courageous decision and the right decision, and I would hope that that’s reflective of his belief to look at all different energy sources,” said Republican Assemblymember Diane Dixon, who represents Newport Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for PG&E, which owns and operates Diablo Canyon, have typically adopted a defensive posture when asked about their nuclear facility and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/pge-bills-diablo-canyon-19821155.php\">cost overruns\u003c/a> it routinely incurs. But the utility company has been singing a different tune lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zawalick, the PG&E vice president, demurred when asked if she thinks Diablo Canyon will ultimately stay open past the station’s latest deadline. “We have to be asked by the state legislators to go longer than 2030,” she said. “But we will be ready, is what I say. And we’re planning to be.” She told CalMatters she hasn’t had any “formal” conversations with tech companies about Diablo Canyon’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern described Diablo Canyon as a “cost-suck” and “old,” adding, “If you were building new nuclear, you would not build it like Diablo Canyon.” But Stern conceded that San Onofre’s shutdown strained the state’s energy grid (it also led to more greenhouse gas production), and he’s come to accept Diablo Canyon’s role, at least for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, who represents Fresno and has co-sponsored nuclear energy legislation, also worries “about what would occur if a member of our energy portfolio was taken offline, how that would increase rates for the rest of us.” Hoover echoed Arambula’s view and said he wants Diablo Canyon to stay open indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An opening for small modular reactors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon is one (complicated) piece of the nuclear puzzle. Then there’s the separate conundrum of whether to roll back all, or some, of the state’s nuclear energy moratorium. As it stands, Republican lawmakers are the political faction that has pushed to change the moratorium. Last year, Dixon was a cosponsor of \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2092\">Assembly Bill 2092\u003c/a>, which would’ve asked the California Public Utilities Commission to conduct a feasibility studies about the possible benefits and effects of small modular reactors by the beginning of 2027. The bill never got a vote on the Assembly floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to have stretch goals,” Dixon said of the state’s zero emissions target. “But we have to be mindful of the impact on the local economy, on jobs, and driving businesses out of California. I want to at least start the process to study this important possible new alternative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another recent proposal, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab65\">Assembly Bill 65,\u003c/a> would’ve created a moratorium exemption for the development of small modular reactors. Hoover and Arambula were co-sponsors on AB 65, and Arambula said he hopes to introduce a similar measure in the 2025–26 legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2023, the last time lawmakers debated the bill to allow small modular reactors, Arambula was one of few Democratic politicians to publicly back pro-nuclear legislation. Los Angeles Democratic Assemblymember Rick Zbur, for instance, told his colleagues he couldn’t support the measure because, while he “used to be someone who believed that nuclear was part of the solution to a carbon-free future,” he changed his views after the 2011 nuclear power plant disaster in Japan. “I don’t think that the California public supports this,” he continued. “I don’t think that we need this to get to a carbon-free future.” (Zbur confirmed to CalMatters that his stance hasn’t changed of late.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other prominent Democratic politicians are beginning to sound more bullish on nuclear energy sources. Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco told CalMatters that he’s noticed “a gradual increased openness among Democrats to nuclear,” and that he thinks nuclear “should certainly be part of the conversation.” Stern, the Senate environment committee member, said he’s interested in giving consideration to some nuclear power bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern previously authored a law that required the California Energy Commission, in consultation with other state agencies, to write an assessment of commercially feasible energy sources. That assessment, \u003ca href=\"https://efiling.energy.ca.gov/Lists/DocketLog.aspx?docketnumber=21-ESR-01\">which was released in August 2024\u003c/a>, suggested more research and development into small modular reactors and recommended that the legislature pass a law to exempt such reactors from the state’s nuclear moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Newsom’s office left the door open to the possibility of small modular reactors and a nuclear moratorium exemption in California. “The Governor has always maintained an interest in new, promising technologies, including advancements in emerging nuclear power technologies, that follow strong safety, cost, and environmental considerations,” Newsom’s Deputy Director of Communications Daniel Villaseñor wrote to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Josh Becker, the new chair of the Senate Energy Committee, also left the door open to nuclear technologies in California: “Climate change is an urgent crisis demanding a comprehensive and proactive response,” the Silicon Valley Democrat wrote in a statement. “To address it effectively, we must consider every viable solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 2025–26 legislative session will be instructive in showing state lawmakers’ willingness to embrace nuclear energy. Any policy changes in California — followed by a hypothetical nuclear site selection process — would proceed at a slow, methodical pace, the exact opposite of how tech companies prefer to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to needing to get a carve-out from the state’s nuclear moratorium and approvals from various state and federal entities, nuclear plant builders could well face lawsuits and other pushback from anti-nuclear groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all those factors in mind, the legislative session will \u003cem>also \u003c/em>reveal whether tech companies feel emboldened to push for nuclear energy sites in California, or if they’re satisfied pursuing their energy needs in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, just because many key AI companies are based in California doesn’t mean their data centers have to be. The recent failed bills to permit some kind of nuclear power in California were proposed shortly before tech’s fast and furious incursion into the nuclear energy space and thus weren’t part of the industry’s 2023–24 legislative lobbying efforts. Public support and lobbying for the two bills came from a handful of relatively small pro-nuclear advocacy groups, as well as a handful of labor groups, and the Nuclear Energy Institute, a pro-nuclear trade association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too soon to tell how serious these tech firms are about promoting nuclear energy to power their electricity needs,” Squassoni said. “It could be a fad — it could be that once they get a real whiff of the costs and time it takes to build new plants, they may back off a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers who spoke to CalMatters said they aren’t against tech companies joining in on broader policy debates around California’s energy grid. Hoover said tech’s nascent nuclear interest may “allow for new conversations to happen,” while Wiener characterized the industry’s involvement as a “positive thing,” so long as companies participate in expanded clean energy initiatives that aren’t exclusively nuclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern, for his part, posited that tech’s interest “certainly doesn’t hurt the zeitgeist around nuclear being a less toxic and scary thing.” He added: “There’s some other incredible tech that, in a lot of cases, beats nuclear from a cost perspective. But it doesn’t quite make sense to me anymore that we don’t let nuclear compete in that contest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Poornima Ramarao scans the buildings surrounding her son’s Lower Haight apartment for visible video cameras. Walking past one of the doors to the modern complex, across the street from old Victorian homes, Balaji Ramamurthy said someone might have gotten in through a number of possible entries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple’s son, Suchir Balaji, quit his job at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/openai\">OpenAI\u003c/a> in August and, by October, was profiled in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/openai-copyright-law.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> saying, “If you believe what I believe, you have to just leave the company.” One of his first projects helped pave the way for ChatGPT — a product that he had come to believe was misusing copyrighted data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly a month later — a week after he was named as a witness for a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft — Balaji, 26, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner certified the cause and manner as a suicide, but a full autopsy has not yet been released, a spokesperson told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His parents, however, believe there has been foul play, and they are calling for a federal investigation. “Our best interest is to have the FBI give us an unbiased investigation,” Ramarao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent days, Ramarao and Ramamurthy have been on calls and video chats with media from around the world at all hours, in an effort to get their son’s story into the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020380\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-BalajiDeathOpenAI-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-BalajiDeathOpenAI-08.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-BalajiDeathOpenAI-08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-BalajiDeathOpenAI-08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-BalajiDeathOpenAI-08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-BalajiDeathOpenAI-08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-BalajiDeathOpenAI-08-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The hands of Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, parents of Suchir Balaji, hold a photo of their son at their home in Union City on Jan. 5, 2024. Suchir Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was the sweetest human being and the kindest human being I’ve ever known in my life,” Ramarao said. “I’m proud to say that I gave birth to such an amazing person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramamurthy shared a story of how his son was always protecting his parents — looking out for them at crosswalks when they weren’t paying attention, pulling his father back from a fast-moving river on a trip to Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balaji was usually responsive, so when the parents hadn’t heard from him the week of Thanksgiving, Ramarao called for a wellness check. She said she waited outside while the police went in to check the apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, she saw a white van leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fear gripped me because it was not an ambulance,” Ramarao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, Ramarao called the police for an update, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020377\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250103-BalajiDeathOpenAI-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250103-BalajiDeathOpenAI-04.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250103-BalajiDeathOpenAI-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250103-BalajiDeathOpenAI-04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250103-BalajiDeathOpenAI-04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250103-BalajiDeathOpenAI-04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250103-BalajiDeathOpenAI-04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Balaji Ramamurthy (left) and Poornima Ramarao, parents of Suchir Balaji, stand next to the apartment building where their son lived in San Francisco on Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They said we are not investigating. Medical examiner is investigating,” so she called the medical examiner, who said, “We are not investigating, police are investigating.” When she called the homicide unit, they said they don’t get involved unless the medical examiner says there is a reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Ramarao and her husband have taken matters into their own hands as they push for further investigation. She called the apartment leasing office and asked them not to clean Balaji’s unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Keep the crime scene as is,” she told them. She said the apartment was disorganized, and there was blood in several locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We questioned the authorities, who said there was no sign of struggle,” Ramarao said. “It was very brutal seeing his blood all over. I don’t think it was instantaneous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for the San Francisco Police Department referred KQED’s questions to the medical examiner’s office, saying it was the lead investigative agency in the case. 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Damages can be tripled “when infringement is willful, meaning done intentionally or with reckless disregard for the law, which incriminating emails would show,” said Colleen Chien, a professor and co-director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Law and Technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12014714 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-29-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because the legal question of whether or not using copyright works for training AI is unsettled, “unsavory facts” such as emails or documentation of conversations “could color not only public opinion but also the development of the law,” Chien said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Balaji’s death, OpenAI referred KQED to \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/1872312018994352636\">a statement released on social media platform X\u003c/a>, saying they were “devastated to learn of this tragic news” and have been in touch with Balaji’s family to offer their full support. “We respect his, and others’, right to share views freely,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Ramarao and Ramamurthy, everywhere in the Bay Area reminds them of their son, from the trails of Coyote Creek, where they hiked to the science museums they took him to as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The worst part is because of the fight for justice, we can’t even grieve,” Ramarao said. “I feel like part of me is missing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family is planning a vigil in front of the San Francisco medical examiner’s office on Jan. 19 at 11 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes discussion of suicide. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve hunted for apartments recently and felt like all the rents were equally high, you’re not crazy: Many landlords now use a single company’s software — which uses an algorithm based on proprietary lease information — to help set rent prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors say the practice amounts to “an unlawful information-sharing scheme,” and some lawmakers throughout California are moving to curb it. San Diego’s city council president is the latest to do so, proposing to prevent local apartment owners from using the pricing software, which he maintains is driving up housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego’s proposed ordinance, now being drafted by the city attorney, comes after San Francisco supervisors in July enacted a similar, \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13157163&GUID=BC67A1E5-F3C7-4EF9-929A-46203D6E63B1\">first-in-the-nation ban\u003c/a> on “the sale or use of algorithmic devices to set rents or manage occupancy levels” for residences. \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/09/05/san-jose-may-consider-ban-on-rent-setting-software-after-antitrust-suit/\">San Jose is considering\u003c/a> a similar approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And California and seven other states have also joined the federal prosecutors’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1364976/dl?inline\">antitrust suit\u003c/a>, which targets the leading rental pricing platform, Texas-based RealPage. The complaint alleges that “RealPage is an algorithmic intermediary that collects, combines, and exploits landlords’ competitively sensitive information. And in so doing, it enriches itself and compliant landlords at the expense of renters who pay inflated prices…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, state lawmakers, this year, failed to advance \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1154?_gl=1*skqse8*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4xLjE3MzMxNjM1NDYuNjAuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4wLjE3MzMxNjI2NzcuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4wLjE3MzMxNjI2NzcuMC4wLjA.\">legislation\u003c/a> by Bakersfield Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/melissa-hurtado-165039?_gl=1*skqse8*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4xLjE3MzMxNjM1NDYuNjAuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4wLjE3MzMxNjI2NzcuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4wLjE3MzMxNjI2NzcuMC4wLjA.\">Sen. Melissa Hurtado\u003c/a> that would have banned the use of any pricing algorithms based on nonpublic data provided by competing companies. She said she plans to bring the bill back during the next legislative session because of what she described as ongoing harms from such algorithms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to make sure the economy is fair and … that every individual who wants a shot at creating a business has a shot without being destroyed along the way, and that we’re also protecting consumers because it is hurting the pocketbooks of everybody in one way or another,” Hurtado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RealPage has been a major impetus for all of the actions. The company counts as its customers landlords with thousands of apartment units across California. Some officials accused the company of thwarting competition that would otherwise drive rents down, exacerbating the state’s housing shortage and driving up rents in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day, millions of Californians worry about keeping a roof over their head and RealPage has directly made it more difficult to do so,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A RealPage spokesperson, Jennifer Bowcock, told CalMatters that a lack of housing supply, not the company’s technology, is the real problem — and that its technology benefits residents, property managers, and others associated with the rental market. The spokesperson later wrote that a “misplaced focus on nonpublic information is a distraction… that will only make San Francisco and San Diego’s historical problems worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the federal lawsuit, the company called the claims in it “devoid of merit” and said it plans to “vigorously defend ourselves against these accusations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are disappointed that, after multiple years of education and cooperation on the antitrust matters concerning RealPage, the (Justice Department) has chosen this moment to pursue a lawsuit that seeks to scapegoat pro-competitive technology that has been used responsibly for years,” the company’s statement read in part. “RealPage’s revenue management software is purposely built to be legally compliant, and we have a long history of working constructively with the (department) to show that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s challenges will only grow if pricing software becomes another instance in which California lawmakers lead the nation. Following San Francisco’s ban, the Philadelphia City Council \u003ca href=\"https://phlcouncil.com/weekly-report-democracy-in-action-during-this-weeks-philadelphia-city-council-session/\">passed a ban on algorithmic rental price-fixing\u003c/a> with a veto-proof vote last month. \u003ca href=\"https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/10/24/lawmakers-advance-bill-to-ban-landlords-use-of-rent-setting-software/\">New Jersey has been considering\u003c/a> its own ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006179\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A “For Rent” sign hangs in the window of an apartment building in San Francisco on July 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Is it price fixing — or coaching landlords?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to federal prosecutors, RealPage controls 80% of the market for commercial revenue management software. Its product is called YieldStar, and its successor is AI Revenue Management, which uses much of the same codebase as YieldStar but has more precise forecasting. RealPage told CalMatters it serves only 10% of the rental markets in both San Francisco and San Diego across its three revenue management software products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it works:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to use YieldStar and AIRM, landlords have historically provided RealPage with their own private data from their rental applications, rent prices, executed new leases, renewal offers and acceptances, and estimates of future occupancy, although a recent change allows landlords to choose to share only public data. This information from all participating landlords in an area is then pooled and run through mathematical forecasting to generate pricing recommendations for the landlords and their competitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Diego council president, Sean Elo-Rivera, explained it like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the simplest terms, what this platform is doing is providing what we think of as that dark, smoky room for big companies to get together and set prices,” he said. “The technology is being used as a way of keeping an arm’s length from one big company to the other. But that’s an illusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the company’s own words, from company documents included in the lawsuit, RealPage “ensures that (landlords) are driving every possible opportunity to increase price even in the most downward trending or unexpected conditions.” The company also said in the documents that it “helps curb (landlords’) instincts to respond to down-market conditions by either dramatically lowering price or by holding price.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Providing rent guidance isn’t the only service RealPage has offered landlords. In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://themarkup.org/locked-out/2020/05/28/access-denied-faulty-automated-background-checks-freeze-out-renters\">a Markup and \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> investigation\u003c/a> found that RealPage, alongside other companies, used faulty computer algorithms to do automated background checks on tenants. As a result, tenants were associated with criminal charges they never faced and denied homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Impact on tenants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thirty-one-year-old Navy veteran Alan Pickens and his wife move nearly every year, “Because the rent goes up, it gets unaffordable, so we look for a new place to stay,” he said. The northeastern San Diego apartment complex where they just relocated has two-bedroom apartments advertised for between $2,995 and $3,215.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They live in an area of San Diego where the U.S. Justice Department said information-sharing agreements between landlords and RealPage have harmed or are likely to harm renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department in August filed its antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, alleging the company, through its legacy YieldStar software, engaged in an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realpage-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millions-american-renters\">unlawful scheme to decrease competition among landlords in apartment pricing.\u003c/a>” The complaint names specific areas where rents are artificially high. Beyond the part of San Diego where Pickens lives, those areas include South Orange County, Rancho Cucamonga, Temecula, and Murrieta and northeastern San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the second quarter of 2020, the average rent in San Diego County was $1,926, reflecting a 26% increase over three years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2023/09/11/san-diego-rents-are-cooling-off-heres-how-changes-break-down-by-area/#:~:text=In%20the%20second%20quarter%20of,was%20a%20few%20years%20ago.\">according to the \u003cem>San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Rents have since risen even more in the city of San Diego, to $2,336 per month as of November 2024 – up 21% from 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/san-diego/\">according to RentCafe\u003c/a> and the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em>. That’s 50% higher than the national average rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys general of eight states, including California, joined the Justice Department’s antitrust suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Justice Department contends RealPage artificially inflated prices to keep them above a certain minimum level, department spokesperson Elissa Perez said. This was particularly harmful given the high cost of housing in the state, she added. “The illegally maintained profits that result from these price alignment schemes come out of the pockets of the people that can least afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-renters/\">make up a larger share of households\u003c/a> in California than in the rest of the country — 44% here compared to 35% nationwide. The Golden State also has a higher percentage of renters than any state other than New York, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST1Y2023.S1901?q=rent&g=010XX00US%240400000\">latest U.S. Census data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego has the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/11/07/a-city-of-renters-san-diego-has-fourth-highest-percentage-of-renters-in-the-u-s/\">fourth-highest percentage of renters of any major city in the nation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label='More Housing Coverage' tag='housing']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent ranks of California legislators, however, have included few renters: As of 2019, CalMatters could \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/04/california-legislature-lawmakers-who-are-landlords/\">find only one state lawmaker who did not own a home\u003c/a> — and found that more than a quarter of legislators at the time were landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies show that rising rents impact low-income residents more heavily. Nationally, between 2000 and 2017, Americans without a college degree spent a higher percentage of their income on rent. That percentage ballooned from 30% to 42%. For college graduates, that percentage increased from 26% to 34%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my estimation, the only winners in this situation are the richest companies who are either using this technology or creating this technology,” Elo-Rivera said. “There couldn’t be a more clear example of the rich getting richer while the rest of us are struggling to get by.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The state has invested in RealPage\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Private equity giant Thoma Bravo \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1286225/000119312521011569/d52613dprem14a.htm\">acquired RealPage in January 2021\u003c/a> through two funds that have hundreds of millions of dollars in investments from California public pension funds, including the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, the Regents of the University of California and the Los Angeles police and fire pension funds, according to the Private Equity Stakeholder Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re invested in things that are directly hurting their pensioners,” said K Agbebiyi, a senior housing campaign coordinator with the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a nonprofit private equity watchdog that \u003ca href=\"https://pestakeholder.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/PESP_Report_Helter_Shelter_2024.pdf\">produced a report about corporate landlords’\u003c/a> impact on rental hikes in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RealPage argues that landlords are free to reject the price recommendations generated by its software. However, the U.S. Justice Department alleges that trying to do so requires a series of steps, including a conversation with a RealPage pricing adviser. The advisers try to “stop property managers from acting on emotions,” according to the department’s lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a property manager disagrees with the price the algorithm suggests and wants to decrease rent rather than increase it, a pricing adviser will “escalate the dispute to the manager’s superior,” prosecutors allege in the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego, the Pickenses, who are expecting their first child, have given up their gym memberships and downsized their cars to remain in the area. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve hunted for apartments recently and felt like all the rents were equally high, you’re not crazy: Many landlords now use a single company’s software — which uses an algorithm based on proprietary lease information — to help set rent prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors say the practice amounts to “an unlawful information-sharing scheme,” and some lawmakers throughout California are moving to curb it. San Diego’s city council president is the latest to do so, proposing to prevent local apartment owners from using the pricing software, which he maintains is driving up housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego’s proposed ordinance, now being drafted by the city attorney, comes after San Francisco supervisors in July enacted a similar, \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13157163&GUID=BC67A1E5-F3C7-4EF9-929A-46203D6E63B1\">first-in-the-nation ban\u003c/a> on “the sale or use of algorithmic devices to set rents or manage occupancy levels” for residences. \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/09/05/san-jose-may-consider-ban-on-rent-setting-software-after-antitrust-suit/\">San Jose is considering\u003c/a> a similar approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And California and seven other states have also joined the federal prosecutors’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1364976/dl?inline\">antitrust suit\u003c/a>, which targets the leading rental pricing platform, Texas-based RealPage. The complaint alleges that “RealPage is an algorithmic intermediary that collects, combines, and exploits landlords’ competitively sensitive information. And in so doing, it enriches itself and compliant landlords at the expense of renters who pay inflated prices…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, state lawmakers, this year, failed to advance \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1154?_gl=1*skqse8*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4xLjE3MzMxNjM1NDYuNjAuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4wLjE3MzMxNjI2NzcuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4wLjE3MzMxNjI2NzcuMC4wLjA.\">legislation\u003c/a> by Bakersfield Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/melissa-hurtado-165039?_gl=1*skqse8*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4xLjE3MzMxNjM1NDYuNjAuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4wLjE3MzMxNjI2NzcuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4wLjE3MzMxNjI2NzcuMC4wLjA.\">Sen. Melissa Hurtado\u003c/a> that would have banned the use of any pricing algorithms based on nonpublic data provided by competing companies. She said she plans to bring the bill back during the next legislative session because of what she described as ongoing harms from such algorithms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Some officials accused the company of thwarting competition that would otherwise drive rents down, exacerbating the state’s housing shortage and driving up rents in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day, millions of Californians worry about keeping a roof over their head and RealPage has directly made it more difficult to do so,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A RealPage spokesperson, Jennifer Bowcock, told CalMatters that a lack of housing supply, not the company’s technology, is the real problem — and that its technology benefits residents, property managers, and others associated with the rental market. The spokesperson later wrote that a “misplaced focus on nonpublic information is a distraction… that will only make San Francisco and San Diego’s historical problems worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the federal lawsuit, the company called the claims in it “devoid of merit” and said it plans to “vigorously defend ourselves against these accusations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are disappointed that, after multiple years of education and cooperation on the antitrust matters concerning RealPage, the (Justice Department) has chosen this moment to pursue a lawsuit that seeks to scapegoat pro-competitive technology that has been used responsibly for years,” the company’s statement read in part. “RealPage’s revenue management software is purposely built to be legally compliant, and we have a long history of working constructively with the (department) to show that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s challenges will only grow if pricing software becomes another instance in which California lawmakers lead the nation. Following San Francisco’s ban, the Philadelphia City Council \u003ca href=\"https://phlcouncil.com/weekly-report-democracy-in-action-during-this-weeks-philadelphia-city-council-session/\">passed a ban on algorithmic rental price-fixing\u003c/a> with a veto-proof vote last month. \u003ca href=\"https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/10/24/lawmakers-advance-bill-to-ban-landlords-use-of-rent-setting-software/\">New Jersey has been considering\u003c/a> its own ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006179\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A “For Rent” sign hangs in the window of an apartment building in San Francisco on July 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Is it price fixing — or coaching landlords?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to federal prosecutors, RealPage controls 80% of the market for commercial revenue management software. Its product is called YieldStar, and its successor is AI Revenue Management, which uses much of the same codebase as YieldStar but has more precise forecasting. RealPage told CalMatters it serves only 10% of the rental markets in both San Francisco and San Diego across its three revenue management software products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it works:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to use YieldStar and AIRM, landlords have historically provided RealPage with their own private data from their rental applications, rent prices, executed new leases, renewal offers and acceptances, and estimates of future occupancy, although a recent change allows landlords to choose to share only public data. This information from all participating landlords in an area is then pooled and run through mathematical forecasting to generate pricing recommendations for the landlords and their competitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Diego council president, Sean Elo-Rivera, explained it like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the simplest terms, what this platform is doing is providing what we think of as that dark, smoky room for big companies to get together and set prices,” he said. “The technology is being used as a way of keeping an arm’s length from one big company to the other. But that’s an illusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the company’s own words, from company documents included in the lawsuit, RealPage “ensures that (landlords) are driving every possible opportunity to increase price even in the most downward trending or unexpected conditions.” The company also said in the documents that it “helps curb (landlords’) instincts to respond to down-market conditions by either dramatically lowering price or by holding price.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Providing rent guidance isn’t the only service RealPage has offered landlords. In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://themarkup.org/locked-out/2020/05/28/access-denied-faulty-automated-background-checks-freeze-out-renters\">a Markup and \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> investigation\u003c/a> found that RealPage, alongside other companies, used faulty computer algorithms to do automated background checks on tenants. As a result, tenants were associated with criminal charges they never faced and denied homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Impact on tenants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thirty-one-year-old Navy veteran Alan Pickens and his wife move nearly every year, “Because the rent goes up, it gets unaffordable, so we look for a new place to stay,” he said. The northeastern San Diego apartment complex where they just relocated has two-bedroom apartments advertised for between $2,995 and $3,215.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They live in an area of San Diego where the U.S. Justice Department said information-sharing agreements between landlords and RealPage have harmed or are likely to harm renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department in August filed its antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, alleging the company, through its legacy YieldStar software, engaged in an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realpage-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millions-american-renters\">unlawful scheme to decrease competition among landlords in apartment pricing.\u003c/a>” The complaint names specific areas where rents are artificially high. Beyond the part of San Diego where Pickens lives, those areas include South Orange County, Rancho Cucamonga, Temecula, and Murrieta and northeastern San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the second quarter of 2020, the average rent in San Diego County was $1,926, reflecting a 26% increase over three years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2023/09/11/san-diego-rents-are-cooling-off-heres-how-changes-break-down-by-area/#:~:text=In%20the%20second%20quarter%20of,was%20a%20few%20years%20ago.\">according to the \u003cem>San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Rents have since risen even more in the city of San Diego, to $2,336 per month as of November 2024 – up 21% from 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/san-diego/\">according to RentCafe\u003c/a> and the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em>. That’s 50% higher than the national average rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys general of eight states, including California, joined the Justice Department’s antitrust suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Justice Department contends RealPage artificially inflated prices to keep them above a certain minimum level, department spokesperson Elissa Perez said. This was particularly harmful given the high cost of housing in the state, she added. “The illegally maintained profits that result from these price alignment schemes come out of the pockets of the people that can least afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-renters/\">make up a larger share of households\u003c/a> in California than in the rest of the country — 44% here compared to 35% nationwide. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]fficer Wendy Venegas spoke softly in Spanish to the 14-year-old standing on the side of a narrow residential road in East Palo Alto. The girl’s face was puffy from crying as she quietly explained what had happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girl said her father had caught her and her boyfriend “doing stuff” that morning, and her dad had either struck or pushed the boy, Venegas later explained. Now, the police had arrived to interview all three of them. So far, this was all standard procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it came time to turn this incident into a report, Venegas would have help from a new assistant: a cutting-edge artificial intelligence tool called Draft One.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Palo Alto, a small working-class city that can feel a world away from its Silicon Valley neighbors, is among a handful of California departments, including Campbell, San Mateo, Bishop and Fresno, that have started to use or test the AI-powered software developed by Axon, an industry leader in body cameras and tasers. Axon said the program can help officers produce more objective reports in less time. But as more agencies adopt these kinds of tools, some experts wonder if they give artificial intelligence too big a part in the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We forget that that document plays a really central role in decisions that change people’s lives,” said Andrew Ferguson, a criminal law professor at American University Washington College of Law who wrote the first law review \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4897632\">article\u003c/a> on AI-assisted police reports, which he expects to publish next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-15-KQED-5.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007615\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-15-KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"A woman dressed in a police uniform sits at a desk in an office looking at a computer screen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-15-KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-15-KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-15-KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-15-KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-15-KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-15-KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Palo Alto Police Officer Wendy Venegas reviews body camera footage and uses Axon’s Draft One AI-based system to draft reports based on the audio from the camera at police headquarters in East Palo Alto on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From documenting the details of complex homicides to recording the basics of a stolen bicycle, police reports have been at the heart of police work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They actually are kind of the building block of the criminal justice system because they are the official sort of memorialization of what happened, when, and sometimes why,” Ferguson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors make charging decisions, judges make bail decisions and people make decisions about their own defense based — at least in part — on what is on this initial piece of paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If part of that is being shaped by AI, it raises some real concerns about whether we can rely on it,” Ferguson said. The potential for error or bias introduced by AI is still being studied. But, he added, law enforcement leaders have an understandable desire to improve efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED.jpg?ver=1727233046\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006137\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a pink shirt stands in front of a man and woman dressed in police uniforms.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Palo Alto Police Officers Wendy Venegas (left) and Spencer Lawrence take a statement from a subject while responding to a call in East Palo Alto on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Axon is marketing its Draft One tool as a force multiplier, which is attractive to many police departments struggling to recruit and retain officers, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theiacp.org/sites/default/files/239416_IACP_RecruitmentBR_HR_0.pdf\">crisis\u003c/a> that many in law enforcement say was exacerbated by the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pendulum is swinging, but many of them are still 15, 20% below their targeted force numbers,” Axon founder Rick Smith said on an August earnings call with shareholders. “And so that’s where we’re hearing this sort of magical feedback, where they’re like, ‘Man, with Draft One, if it’s freeing up 20, 25% of my officers’ day from writing reports, that’s almost like a 20% bump in my, in my force power overnight.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Palo Alto Chief Jeff Liu said his agency isn’t immune to these staffing concerns. The department is budgeted for 36 sworn officers, including the chief, but he’s currently short eight positions. He doesn’t see Draft One as a turn-key solution but hopes it can help officers spend more time on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this AI is going to speed up the reports, but without compromising accuracy, I think it’s a win,” he said. East Palo Alto’s \u003ca href=\"https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/cityofepa/0b769671-d804-11ee-98bb-0050569183fa-3408cd31-ecd7-4429-9d91-65986d552499-1721442774.pdf\">contract\u003c/a> shows Draft One costs the city about $70 per body camera per month or about $40,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The torso of a person dressed in a police uniform holds a hand over a body camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Palo Alto Police Officer Wendy Venegas’ Axon body camera in East Palo Alto on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Liu said while he doesn’t write many reports these days, he does use Chat GPT to draft social media posts and even condolence letters, which he then customizes in his own voice. Working with the popular AI chatbot made him more open to Draft One, he said. Draft One uses the same underlying AI as \u003ca href=\"https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/\">Chat GPT\u003c/a>, but departmental data is stored on a secure government cloud service developed by Microsoft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Axon is not the only company that offers this service. \u003ca href=\"https://truleo.co/\">Truleo\u003c/a> — a company that uses AI to analyze vast swaths of bodycam footage to make sure officers are acting professionally — offers a similar report-writing program, but it hasn’t been marketed or adopted as widely as Axon’s Draft One.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearby Santa Clara County, Campbell police Capt. Ian White said that in his department’s first month of testing Draft One, officers said it saved them about 50 hours overall. The police department in Fort Collins, Colorado, found that, on average, reports written with Draft One were produced in eight minutes, while those not using the software took 23 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the first independent \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-024-09644-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-024-09644-7\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">study\u003c/a> of the Draft One software published this week in The Journal of Experimental Criminology, did not corroborate the time savings that White and others reported. Researchers at the University of South Carolina did a randomized controlled trial with a New Hampshire police department over the past year, which found officers who used Draft One didn’t write reports any faster than those in the control group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant Professor Ian Adams, who led the study, said he can’t yet draw conclusions about why there were no time-savings — he and his colleagues are still looking into that — but he said the results surprised him. He also cautioned against giving his findings too much weight. “It is in one agency, about one outcome at one point in time,” Adams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His team is still researching whether there could be other benefits like accuracy or completeness. If technology like Draft One can produce better-written reports, he said, “maybe they get returned for editing or revision less [often], and so you could maybe see systemic savings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13-KQED.jpg?ver=1727270167\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006142\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman dressed in a police uniform sits at a desk in an office looking at a computer screen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Palo Alto Police Officer Wendy Venegas reviews body camera footage and uses Axon’s Draft One AI-based software to draft reports based on the audio from the camera at police headquarters in East Palo Alto on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officer Venegas in East Palo Alto said the program helps her overcome writer’s block, especially after a long day on patrol. She can just push the Draft One button on her computer, and a narrative based on the audio transcript of her bodycam footage appears within seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you don’t know what words you’re trying to write, and then you just look, and you’re like, ‘Oh, that’s exactly what I was thinking!’ That’s the best,” she said. Draft One is also changing the way she works in the field. Because the report is based on the audio transcript, Venegas said she will purposefully talk about what is happening during an incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be like, ‘Did you see that? The mirror is broken,’” Venegas said. “‘Did you see that? There’s stuff on the floor. The knife, the bloody knife, is on the floor.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Axon product designer Noah Spitzer-Williams said this was one of the most surprising and fascinating side-effects of the software: it incentivizes officers to be more verbal overall, even talking into their camera’s microphone to provide context — like the parole status of a subject or whether a weapon has been reported before arriving at a scene — so the audio transcript contains key details that Draft One puts in the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then, during the interaction, the officer is asking more questions,” Spitzer-Williams said. “They’re echoing back statements like, ‘Okay, Jimmy. You’re giving me consent to search your backpack.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spitzer-Williams said this also helps community relations because officers are explaining what they’re doing and why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/acting-and-directing-police-cameras\">research\u003c/a> by the American Civil Liberties Union shows the ways officers’ real-time narration has also been used to manipulate evidence. A common example is when officers shout “stop resisting” to justify use of force even when the individual is complying. Axon’s Spitzer-Williams said he doesn’t believe Draft One will make this “real concern” any worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spitzer-Williams also pointed to an Axon \u003ca href=\"https://a.storyblok.com/f/198504/x/7a83779017/axon_marketing_draft-one_double-blind-study_fnl.pdf\">study\u003c/a> that found reports written by the software tended to use less biased language than reports written by officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in a conference room at the East Palo Alto Police Department, Venegas read from her AI-generated report. “September 23, 2024, at approximately 10:49, I, Officer Venegas, responded to a call for service involving a minor and a domestic disturbance.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program produced a good rough draft, she said, but it has some limitations. At this point, Draft One only understands English, so it got some things wrong, like who was speaking and who was related to whom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it makes small mistakes like that,” Venegas said, “Which are easy to correct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-08-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three people dressed in police uniforms stand around outside next to a man with a white t-shirt.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Palo Alto Police Officers (from left) Guadalupe Juarez, Spencer Lawrence and Wendy Venegas speak with a subject while responding to a call in East Palo Alto on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some in the criminal justice sector said these seemingly small mistakes point to bigger questions of authorship, which can become critical in the adjudication process. Dr. Matthew Guariglia, a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said he’s concerned these reports are “going to destroy the ability to cross-examine officers. Because if an officer is caught in a lie on the stand, they can always just say, ‘Well, the AI wrote that.’” [aside postID=\"news_12002254,news_12005186,news_12007087\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Ian White of the Campbell Police Department, which has been using the software since May, said his department’s policy ensures officers take responsibility for authoring the reports produced by Draft One. Even if an officer “screwed up” and an error was introduced into the report, he said, it should be easily resolvable by reviewing what he called the “gold standard” of evidence: the bodycam video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s error in any human activity,” White said. He thinks AI will make things more accurate, not less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County Assistant District Attorney Rebecca Baum, who has been talking with East Palo Alto and San Mateo police departments about their shift toward AI-assisted reports, said her office is cautiously optimistic about the new program. Her chief concern is that body cameras, and especially body camera audio, don’t capture everything that happens during an incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Witness demeanor, if someone’s under the influence of drugs or alcohol, if there’s injuries,” Baum said, “this is not coming through from an audio recording of the body camera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-16.-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007590\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-16.-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a computer screen with text highlighted in blue.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-16.-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-16.-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-16.-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-16.-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-16.-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-16.-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Palo Alto Police Officer Wendy Venegas reviews the draft report generated by Axon Draft One’s based on the audio from her body camera at police headquarters in East Palo Alto on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officers need to remain very engaged in the process of writing these reports, Baum said, so they don’t leave something out — particularly information that shows a person might be innocent, which prosecutors have a duty to turn over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, Axon has also built a number of safeguards into the application to ensure that an officer goes through the report in detail to proofread it and make sure it’s accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the computer screen, Officer Venegas demonstrated how each paragraph of the report includes comments that need to be resolved before she can move the report out of Draft One and into the departmental system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the very bottom of the screen, Venegas pointed to a box she has to click, a final step that Spitzer-Williams, of Axon, said is “arguably the most important,” given the potential ramifications of each report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I acknowledge that this report was generated using Draft One by Axon,” Venegas read aloud. “And that I further acknowledge that I have viewed the report in detail, made any necessary edits, and believe it to be an accurate representation of my recollection of the reported events. If needed, I’m willing to testify to the accuracy of this report.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is a collaboration between \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/\">KQED\u003c/a>, The Guardian US, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom\">California Newsroom\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They actually are kind of the building block of the criminal justice system because they are the official sort of memorialization of what happened, when, and sometimes why,” Ferguson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors make charging decisions, judges make bail decisions and people make decisions about their own defense based — at least in part — on what is on this initial piece of paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If part of that is being shaped by AI, it raises some real concerns about whether we can rely on it,” Ferguson said. The potential for error or bias introduced by AI is still being studied. But, he added, law enforcement leaders have an understandable desire to improve efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED.jpg?ver=1727233046\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006137\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a pink shirt stands in front of a man and woman dressed in police uniforms.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Palo Alto Police Officers Wendy Venegas (left) and Spencer Lawrence take a statement from a subject while responding to a call in East Palo Alto on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Axon is marketing its Draft One tool as a force multiplier, which is attractive to many police departments struggling to recruit and retain officers, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theiacp.org/sites/default/files/239416_IACP_RecruitmentBR_HR_0.pdf\">crisis\u003c/a> that many in law enforcement say was exacerbated by the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pendulum is swinging, but many of them are still 15, 20% below their targeted force numbers,” Axon founder Rick Smith said on an August earnings call with shareholders. “And so that’s where we’re hearing this sort of magical feedback, where they’re like, ‘Man, with Draft One, if it’s freeing up 20, 25% of my officers’ day from writing reports, that’s almost like a 20% bump in my, in my force power overnight.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Palo Alto Chief Jeff Liu said his agency isn’t immune to these staffing concerns. The department is budgeted for 36 sworn officers, including the chief, but he’s currently short eight positions. He doesn’t see Draft One as a turn-key solution but hopes it can help officers spend more time on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this AI is going to speed up the reports, but without compromising accuracy, I think it’s a win,” he said. East Palo Alto’s \u003ca href=\"https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/cityofepa/0b769671-d804-11ee-98bb-0050569183fa-3408cd31-ecd7-4429-9d91-65986d552499-1721442774.pdf\">contract\u003c/a> shows Draft One costs the city about $70 per body camera per month or about $40,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The torso of a person dressed in a police uniform holds a hand over a body camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Palo Alto Police Officer Wendy Venegas’ Axon body camera in East Palo Alto on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Liu said while he doesn’t write many reports these days, he does use Chat GPT to draft social media posts and even condolence letters, which he then customizes in his own voice. Working with the popular AI chatbot made him more open to Draft One, he said. Draft One uses the same underlying AI as \u003ca href=\"https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/\">Chat GPT\u003c/a>, but departmental data is stored on a secure government cloud service developed by Microsoft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Axon is not the only company that offers this service. \u003ca href=\"https://truleo.co/\">Truleo\u003c/a> — a company that uses AI to analyze vast swaths of bodycam footage to make sure officers are acting professionally — offers a similar report-writing program, but it hasn’t been marketed or adopted as widely as Axon’s Draft One.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearby Santa Clara County, Campbell police Capt. Ian White said that in his department’s first month of testing Draft One, officers said it saved them about 50 hours overall. The police department in Fort Collins, Colorado, found that, on average, reports written with Draft One were produced in eight minutes, while those not using the software took 23 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the first independent \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-024-09644-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-024-09644-7\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">study\u003c/a> of the Draft One software published this week in The Journal of Experimental Criminology, did not corroborate the time savings that White and others reported. Researchers at the University of South Carolina did a randomized controlled trial with a New Hampshire police department over the past year, which found officers who used Draft One didn’t write reports any faster than those in the control group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant Professor Ian Adams, who led the study, said he can’t yet draw conclusions about why there were no time-savings — he and his colleagues are still looking into that — but he said the results surprised him. He also cautioned against giving his findings too much weight. “It is in one agency, about one outcome at one point in time,” Adams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His team is still researching whether there could be other benefits like accuracy or completeness. If technology like Draft One can produce better-written reports, he said, “maybe they get returned for editing or revision less [often], and so you could maybe see systemic savings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13-KQED.jpg?ver=1727270167\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006142\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman dressed in a police uniform sits at a desk in an office looking at a computer screen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Palo Alto Police Officer Wendy Venegas reviews body camera footage and uses Axon’s Draft One AI-based software to draft reports based on the audio from the camera at police headquarters in East Palo Alto on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officer Venegas in East Palo Alto said the program helps her overcome writer’s block, especially after a long day on patrol. She can just push the Draft One button on her computer, and a narrative based on the audio transcript of her bodycam footage appears within seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you don’t know what words you’re trying to write, and then you just look, and you’re like, ‘Oh, that’s exactly what I was thinking!’ That’s the best,” she said. Draft One is also changing the way she works in the field. Because the report is based on the audio transcript, Venegas said she will purposefully talk about what is happening during an incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be like, ‘Did you see that? The mirror is broken,’” Venegas said. “‘Did you see that? There’s stuff on the floor. The knife, the bloody knife, is on the floor.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Axon product designer Noah Spitzer-Williams said this was one of the most surprising and fascinating side-effects of the software: it incentivizes officers to be more verbal overall, even talking into their camera’s microphone to provide context — like the parole status of a subject or whether a weapon has been reported before arriving at a scene — so the audio transcript contains key details that Draft One puts in the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then, during the interaction, the officer is asking more questions,” Spitzer-Williams said. “They’re echoing back statements like, ‘Okay, Jimmy. You’re giving me consent to search your backpack.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spitzer-Williams said this also helps community relations because officers are explaining what they’re doing and why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/acting-and-directing-police-cameras\">research\u003c/a> by the American Civil Liberties Union shows the ways officers’ real-time narration has also been used to manipulate evidence. A common example is when officers shout “stop resisting” to justify use of force even when the individual is complying. Axon’s Spitzer-Williams said he doesn’t believe Draft One will make this “real concern” any worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spitzer-Williams also pointed to an Axon \u003ca href=\"https://a.storyblok.com/f/198504/x/7a83779017/axon_marketing_draft-one_double-blind-study_fnl.pdf\">study\u003c/a> that found reports written by the software tended to use less biased language than reports written by officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in a conference room at the East Palo Alto Police Department, Venegas read from her AI-generated report. “September 23, 2024, at approximately 10:49, I, Officer Venegas, responded to a call for service involving a minor and a domestic disturbance.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program produced a good rough draft, she said, but it has some limitations. At this point, Draft One only understands English, so it got some things wrong, like who was speaking and who was related to whom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it makes small mistakes like that,” Venegas said, “Which are easy to correct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-08-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three people dressed in police uniforms stand around outside next to a man with a white t-shirt.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Palo Alto Police Officers (from left) Guadalupe Juarez, Spencer Lawrence and Wendy Venegas speak with a subject while responding to a call in East Palo Alto on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some in the criminal justice sector said these seemingly small mistakes point to bigger questions of authorship, which can become critical in the adjudication process. Dr. Matthew Guariglia, a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said he’s concerned these reports are “going to destroy the ability to cross-examine officers. Because if an officer is caught in a lie on the stand, they can always just say, ‘Well, the AI wrote that.’” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Ian White of the Campbell Police Department, which has been using the software since May, said his department’s policy ensures officers take responsibility for authoring the reports produced by Draft One. Even if an officer “screwed up” and an error was introduced into the report, he said, it should be easily resolvable by reviewing what he called the “gold standard” of evidence: the bodycam video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s error in any human activity,” White said. He thinks AI will make things more accurate, not less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County Assistant District Attorney Rebecca Baum, who has been talking with East Palo Alto and San Mateo police departments about their shift toward AI-assisted reports, said her office is cautiously optimistic about the new program. Her chief concern is that body cameras, and especially body camera audio, don’t capture everything that happens during an incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Witness demeanor, if someone’s under the influence of drugs or alcohol, if there’s injuries,” Baum said, “this is not coming through from an audio recording of the body camera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-16.-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007590\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-16.-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a computer screen with text highlighted in blue.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-16.-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-16.-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-16.-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-16.-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-16.-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-16.-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Palo Alto Police Officer Wendy Venegas reviews the draft report generated by Axon Draft One’s based on the audio from her body camera at police headquarters in East Palo Alto on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officers need to remain very engaged in the process of writing these reports, Baum said, so they don’t leave something out — particularly information that shows a person might be innocent, which prosecutors have a duty to turn over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, Axon has also built a number of safeguards into the application to ensure that an officer goes through the report in detail to proofread it and make sure it’s accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the computer screen, Officer Venegas demonstrated how each paragraph of the report includes comments that need to be resolved before she can move the report out of Draft One and into the departmental system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the very bottom of the screen, Venegas pointed to a box she has to click, a final step that Spitzer-Williams, of Axon, said is “arguably the most important,” given the potential ramifications of each report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I acknowledge that this report was generated using Draft One by Axon,” Venegas read aloud. “And that I further acknowledge that I have viewed the report in detail, made any necessary edits, and believe it to be an accurate representation of my recollection of the reported events. If needed, I’m willing to testify to the accuracy of this report.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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