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From sci-fi to state law: California’s plan to prevent AI catastrophe
Critics say SB-1047, proposed by "AI doomers," could slow innovation and stifle open source AI.
The bill also focuses at points on AI actions that would require "intent, recklessness, or gross negligence" if performed by a human, suggesting a degree of agency that does not exist in today's large language models. In a 2023 Time Magazine piece, Hendrycks makes the maximalist existential argument that "evolutionary pressures will likely ingrain AIs with behaviors that promote self-preservation" and lead to "a pathway toward being supplanted as the earth's dominant species.'" "With their fictional fears, they try to pass fictional-led legislation, one that, according to numerous AI experts and open source advocates, could ruin California's and the US's technological advantage."
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