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Will California flip the AI industry on its head?
Gavin Newsom is the bill’s last hurdle.
At a Y Combinator event regarding AI regulation that I attended in late July, I spoke with Andrew Ng, cofounder of Coursera and founder of Google Brain, who talked about his plans to protest SB 1047 in the streets of San Francisco. In a statement in support of SB 1047 reported by Axios, 120 current and former employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google’s DeepMind, and Meta said they “believe that the most powerful AI models may soon pose severe risks, such as expanded access to biological weapons and cyberattacks on critical infrastructure.” There’s also OpenAI’s chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon, who said in a letter to Newsom and Wiener that “SB 1047 would threaten that growth, slow the pace of innovation, and lead California’s world-class engineers and entrepreneurs to leave the state in search of greater opportunity elsewhere.”
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