Politico October 2, 2024
By Derek Robertson

As quickly as big tech companies are developing the tools they say will change the world, their own world is shifting under their feet.

A series of minor earthquakes in the artificial intelligence landscape in recent weeks have shown that when it comes to defining AI “safety” — that is, exactly what risks AI poses in the first place, and how they should be prioritized — hardly anything is settled, and industry now appears to be winning an influence race in which well-funded intellectuals had jumped out to an early lead.

On Sunday, California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed his state’s SB 1047, which would have put restrictions on the most powerful AI models and made companies liable for “catastrophic” harms...

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