Governor Newsom says NO to one of the most closely watched bills of the session in Sacramento, vetoing major legislation regulating artificial intelligence.
This is SB 1047, a bill by State Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco, which would have imposed safeguards to make sure AI does not lead to what the bill calls “critical harms,” meaning major disasters or catastrophes. But the bill would only have applied to large scale models, without getting too technical here, and Governor Newsom said that made no sense, and while well-intentioned, since it would only cover companies using large systems, he decided it fell short. Big tech tycoons and companies lobbied heavily against this bill, urging Newsom to veto it, despite overwhelming support from voters surveyed about the legislation. The governor did sign more than a dozen other bills regulating AI.
For more on this, KCBS Radio anchor Patti Reising and KCBS Insider Doug Sovern were joined by Teri Olle, she is Director of Economic Security California Action, an organization that was one of the co-sponsors of the bill.
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This is SB 1047, a bill by State Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco, which would have imposed safeguards to make sure AI does not lead to what the bill calls “critical harms,” meaning major disasters or catastrophes. But the bill would only have applied to large scale models, without getting too technical here, and Governor Newsom said that made no sense, and while well-intentioned, since it would only cover companies using large systems, he decided it fell short. Big tech tycoons and companies lobbied heavily against this bill, urging Newsom to veto it, despite overwhelming support from voters surveyed about the legislation. The governor did sign more than a dozen other bills regulating AI.
For more on this, KCBS Radio anchor Patti Reising and KCBS Insider Doug Sovern were joined by Teri Olle, she is Director of Economic Security California Action, an organization that was one of the co-sponsors of the bill.
This is The State of California.
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