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Big Tech Is Very Afraid of a Very Modest AI Safety Bill | Despite claiming to support AI safety, powerful tech interests are trying to kill SB1047.


Despite claiming to support AI safety, powerful tech interests are trying to kill SB1047.

Yet, despite universal recognition among leading AI executives of the risks their work poses, the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act (SB1047) has become the target of an extraordinary lobbying effort. What industry in America today, without explicit legislative exemption, is entitled to deploy, without regulation or liability, a product that creates “unreasonable risks of causing…critical harms”? On February 27, 2013, just a few hours after Solicitor General Donald Verrilli endeavored to protect the Voting Rights Act before the US Supreme Court, he dropped by his boss’s off…

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