The California State Meeting approved a invoice on Wednesday that lays the muse for regulating synthetic intelligence (AI) within the state, together with requiring builders to satisfy sure situations earlier than starting AI mannequin coaching.
The invoice, SB 1047, will solely have an effect on builders liable for the coaching of “lined fashions,” which the invoice defines based mostly on the amount and value of the computing energy utilized in coaching. The situations builders should meet to start AI coaching would come with security protocols, shutdown capabilities and cybersecurity protections, and the invoice would additionally mandate builders to submit a report of any security incidents round lined fashions. These necessities purpose to attenuate the influence of potential AI misuse on public security.
The meeting handed SB 1047 with a 49-15 vote. Senator Scott Weiner, who launched the invoice, defined after the vote:
With this vote, the Meeting has taken the actually historic step of working proactively to make sure an thrilling new expertise protects the general public curiosity because it advances. SB 1047 is a lightweight contact, commonsense measure that codifies commitments that the biggest AI firms have already voluntarily made.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk expressed on X his assist for the invoice, calling himself an “advocate for AI regulation.” Nonetheless, California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi released an announcement characterizing the invoice as “well-intentioned however in poor health knowledgeable” and “extra dangerous than useful” in its safety of American customers.
SB 1047 comes as a response to public security issues concerning the usage of AI and the implications of its potential misuse, comparable to the potential for “enabling the creation … of weapons of mass destruction.” The White Home beforehand launched the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights in 2022, which summarized a number of the issues concerning the results of AI on the American folks and the world. President Joe Biden additionally beforehand signed an govt order in 2023 that set some security requirements for AI nationwide.
The European Union (EU) was the first globally to go laws regulating AI, and that laws got here into impact on August 1. The EU’s regulation was equally motivated by issues for public security, however as a substitute of specializing in a selected kind of AI mannequin just like the California invoice, the EU centered on completely different ranges of dangers created by AI use.
Now that the meeting has handed SB 1047, the invoice has been returned to the Senate. As soon as the Senate passes the invoice, Governor Gavin Newsom will select whether or not to signal the invoice into legislation or veto it.
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