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All the news about SB 1047, California’s bid to govern AI

California works on its approach to artificial intelligence.

SB 1047 has proven controversial, drawing criticism from the likes of Mozilla (which expressed concern it would harm the open-source community); OpenAI (which warned it could hamper the AI industry’s growth); and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who called it “well-intentioned but ill informed.” But particularly after an amendment that softened some provisions, it garnered support from other parties. Anthropic concluded that the bill’s “benefits likely outweigh its costs,” while former Google AI lead Geoffrey Hinton called it “a sensible approach” for balancing risks and advancement of the technology. The letter is addressed to California State Senator Scott Wiener, who originally introduced SB 1047, also known as the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act.

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