Forbes October 8, 2024
Joe McKendrick

The recently quashed California AI Safety Bill may have not made it into law, but that doesn’t mean industry observers still aren’t worried about the implications stemming from a lack of AI safety. The bill, vetoed by Governor Newsome, would have imposed some relatively heavy-handed regulations on AI developers: such as mandatory safety testing, inclusion of kill switches in applications, and requirements of greater oversight of frontier models.

That doesn’t mean the debate over stricter AI guidelines is over. The now-nullified bill has “sparked an essential conversation about how to regulate AI effectively,” related Paul McDonagh-Smith, senior lecturer of IT at MIT Sloan Executive Education. “While ensuring safety is crucial, especially for frontier AI models, there is also a need...

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