On Wednesday, the California legislature passed a measure that attempts to regulate advanced artificial intelligence models, despite protests that the technology it aims to govern could be damaged.
“Our AI safety bill, SB 1047, recently left the Assembly floor. law sponsor and Democrat Scott Wiener of San Francisco remarked, “I’m proud of the diverse coalition behind this bill—a coalition that deeply believes in both innovation and safety.”
Democratic members of US Congress were among the many supporters of the law who claimed that trying to take punishment against developers in a developing sector would stop progress. Elon Musk did, however, somewhat back it, claiming that Al’s risk to the public warrants regulation. “It’s a difficult decision that may cause distress to some individuals,” he declared on Monday when supporting X.
Gavin Newsom of California will now sign the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act, though it is unclear what he thinks of the measure.
Newsom has until September 30 to veto or approve the bill. The Center for Al Safety’s director, Dan Hendrycks, stated that the measure offers “a workable path forward” to enact “safeguards to mitigate against critical Al risk.”
The bill requires security measures, including pre-deployment testing, hacker attack training, cyber security safeguard setup, and whistleblower protection for creators of major “frontier” Al models. Legislators changed the bill in a number of ways to ensure that it would pass in Silicon Valley, including by replacing civil punishments, including fines, for criminal penalties for violations. However, there was still opposition to the bill, even from a few important national individuals.
Leading Democratic congresswoman Nancy Pelosi of California stated last week, “The view of many of us in Congress is that SB 1047 is well-intentioned but ill-informed,” adding that Wiener has heard the concerns of other party leaders. However, Wiener argues that innovation and AI safety are not mutually exclusive and that some of the concerns of the law have been addressed by the changes made to it.The company that created ChatGPT, OpenAl, also opposed the bill, arguing that it would be better to have national regulations rather than an unorganized patchwork of state-by-state Al laws in the US.
The National Conference of State Legislatures reports that at least 40 states have submitted legislation to regulate Al this year and that six states have passed resolutions or passed laws related to the technology.
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