A California landmark legislation to establish first-in-the-nation safety measures for the largest AI systems has cleared an important vote.
FILE - State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, watches as the Senate votes on a measure at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, April 11, 2024. to establish first-in-the-nation safety measures for the largest artificial intelligence systems cleared an important vote Wednesday that could pave the way for U.S. regulations on the technology evolving at warp speed.
Supporters said it would set some of the first much-needed safety ground rules for large-scale AI models in the United States. The bill targets systems that require more than $100 million in data to train. No current AI models have hit that threshold. A group of several California House members also opposed the bill, with Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling it “Chamber of Progress, a left-leaning Silicon Valley-funded industry group, said the law is “based on science fiction fantasies of what AI could look like.”
Anthropic said in a letter to Newsom that the bill is crucial to prevent catastrophic misuse of powerful AI systems and that “its benefits likely outweigh its costs.”“Innovation and safety can go hand in hand—and California is leading the way,” Weiner said in a statement after the vote.
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