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California Governor Gavin Newsom hasvetoed SB 1047 , a gamey - visibility bill that would have regulated the developing of AI .
The bill was authored by State Senator Scott Wiener and would havemade companies that formulate AI models liablefor implementing safety protocol to prevent “ critical harm . ” The rules would only have applied to models that be at least $ 100 million and apply 10 ^ 26 FLOPS ( floating point operations , a measuring rod of computation ) during training .
SB 1047 was controvert by many in Silicon Valley , include company like OpenAI , mellow - visibility technologists like Meta ’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun , and even Democratic politico such as U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna . That state , the government note had also been amendedbased on suggestions by AI companionship Anthropic and other antagonist .
While California ’s state general assembly passed SB 1047 , opposition were support out hope that Newsom might veto it — and indeed , he ’d alreadyindicated that he had reservationsabout the flyer .
In a instruction about today ’s veto , Newsom said , “ While well - intentioned , SB 1047 does not take into history whether an AI organisation is deployed in eminent - risk surroundings , take vital decision - qualification or the use of sensitive data . Instead , the bill applies tight touchstone to even the most introductory function — so long as a large system deploys it . I do not believe this is the good coming to protecting the public from real threats posed by the engineering . ”
Congresswoman and longtime House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had alsocriticized the billas “ well - intentioned but ill - informed . ” After the veto was announced , shepraised Newsom“for recognizing the chance and responsibility we all share to enable small enterpriser and academia – not magnanimous tech – to dominate . ”
In the same announcement , Newsom ’s office note that he ’s sign 17 bills ( 18 , by our count ) around the regulation and deployment of AI technology in the last 30 solar day , and it said he ’s enquire expert such asFei - Fei Li , Tino Cuéllar , andJennifer Tour Chayesto “ aid California develop workable guardrail for deploy GenAI . ” ( Known as the “ godmother of AI,”Li had previously saidSB 1047 would “ harm our bud AI ecosystem . ” )
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Wiener , meanwhile , publish a statementdescribing the veto as “ a setback for everyone who believes in oversight of massive corporations that are make decisive decision that impress the safety and welfare of the public and the hereafter of the planet . ” He also take that the disputation around the posting “ has dramatically advanced the outlet of AI safety on the external phase . ”
