Politico September 3, 2024
California lawmakers sent a nationally consequential AI bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk last week — America’s most high-profile effort to date to put fresh legal guardrails around AI safety.
It’s not clear that Newsom will sign it; influential California Democrats are digging in against it, including Nancy Pelosi. But a look at one of its key provisions — and the debate around it — shows just how much the argument on AI has been shifting since lawmakers started to worry about it last year.
State Bill 1047 would hold companies liable for harms caused by their software, establish protection for AI whistleblowers, and put safety restrictions and requirements on AI models that reach a certain level of computational power,...
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