Californians want controls on AI. Why did Gavin Newsom veto an AI safety bill? | Garrison Lovely

AI lobbyists are fighting regulation because they know voters of both parties do not trust the sector to police itself

Governor Gavin Newsom of California recently killed SB1047, a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence safety bill, arguing that its focus on only the largest AI models leaves out smaller ones that can also be risky. Instead, he says, we should pass comprehensive regulations on the technology.

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Garrison Lovely (@GarrisonLovely) is a journalist who has contributed to The Nation, Jacobin, the New York Times, BBC Future, The Verge, Time, Vox, and elsewhere. He writes The Obsolete Newsletter" and is the author of a forthcoming book on the economics and geopolitics of the race to build machine superintelligence