California Lawmakers Pass Ai Safety Bill Sb 53 — But Newsom Could Still Veto

California’s authorities legislature gave last approval early connected Saturday greeting to a awesome AI information measure mounting caller transparency requirements connected ample companies.

As described by its author, authorities legislator Scott Wiener, SB 53 “requires ample AI labs to beryllium transparent astir their information protocols, creates whistleblower protections for [employees] astatine AI labs & creates a nationalist unreality to grow compute entree (CalCompute).”

The measure now goes to California Governor Gavin Newsom to motion aliases veto. He has not commented publically connected SB 53, but past year, he vetoed a much expansive information bill besides authored by Wiener, while signing narrower legislation targeting issues for illustration deepfakes.

At nan time, Newsom acknowledged nan value of “protecting nan nationalist from existent threats posed by this technology,” but criticized Wiener’s erstwhile measure for applying “stringent standards” to ample models sloppy of whether they were “deployed successful high-risk environments, [involved] captious decision-making aliases nan usage of delicate data.”

Wiener said nan caller measure was influenced by recommendations from a argumentation sheet of AI experts that Newsom convened aft his veto.

Politico besides reports that SB 53 was precocious amended truthful that companies processing “frontier” AI models while bringing successful little than $500 cardinal successful yearly gross will only request to disclose precocious level information details, while companies making much than that will request to supply much elaborate reports.

The measure has been opposed by a number of Silicon Valley companies, VC firms, and lobbying groups. In a caller missive to Newsom, OpenAI did not mention SB 53 specifically but based on that to debar “duplication and inconsistencies,” companies should beryllium considered compliant pinch statewide information rules arsenic agelong arsenic they meet national aliases European standards.

And Andreessen Horowitz’s caput of AI argumentation and main ineligible serviceman recently claimed that ”many of today’s authorities AI bills — for illustration proposals successful California and New York — risk” crossing a statement by violating law limits connected really states tin modulate interstate commerce.

a16z’s co-founders had antecedently pointed to tech regularisation arsenic 1 of nan factors starring them to back Donald Trump’s bid for a 2nd term. The Trump management and its friends subsequently called for a 10-year prohibition connected authorities AI regulation.

Anthropic, meanwhile, has come retired successful favour of SB 53.

“We person agelong said we would for illustration a national standard,” said Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark in a post. “But successful nan absence of that this creates a coagulated blueprint for AI governance that cannot beryllium ignored.”