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California must not fall for tech industry's false choices on AI safety legislation
The fearmongering by the tech industry in response to a California bill that aims to make AI development safer is nothing new.
If you’ve encountered headlines about California’s proposed legislation to establish safety guardrails around artificial intelligence, you might think this is a debate between Big Tech and “slow” government. In fact, the bill has been endorsed by many of the scientists who invented the field decades ago, including Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, the so-called “godfathers of AI.” Now that they are finally facing a bill that would codify those verbal commitments, they are showing their hand by lobbying against common sense safety requirements and crying wolf about startups leaving the state.
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