“Newsom Vetoes SB 1047” by Zvi

It's over, until such a future time as either we are so back, or it is over for humanity.

Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 1047.

Newsom's Message In Full

Quoted text is him, comments are mine.

To the Members of the California State Senate: I am returning Senate Bill 1047 without my signature.

This bill would require developers of large artificial intelligence (Al) models, and those providing the computing power to train such models, to put certain safeguards and policies in place to prevent catastrophic harm. The bill would also establish the Board of Frontier Models – a state entity – to oversee the development of these models.

It is worth pointing out here that mostly the ‘certain safeguards and policies’ was ‘have a policy at all, tell us what it is and then follow it.’ But there were some specific things that [...]

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Outline:

(00:15) Newsom's Message In Full

(10:42) Newsom's Explanation Does Not Make Sense

(15:21) Newsom's Proposed Path of Use Regulation is Terrible for Everyone

(23:02) Newsom's Proposed Path of Use Regulation Doesn’t Prevent X-Risk

(26:49) Newsom Says He Wants to Regulate Small Entrepreneurs and Academia

(29:20) What If Something Goes Really Wrong?

(30:12) Could Newsom Come Around?

(35:10) Timing is Everything

(36:23) SB 1047 Was Popular

(39:41) What Did the Market Have to Say?

(41:51) What Newsom Did Sign

(54:00) Paths Forward

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First published:
October 1st, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6kZ6gW5DEZKFfqvZD/newsom-vetoes-sb-1047

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