Tuesday, August 27, 2024

California weakens bill to prevent AI disasters before final vote, taking advice from Anthropic - Maxwell Zeff, TechCrunch

“We accepted a number of very reasonable amendments proposed, and I believe we’ve addressed the core concerns expressed by Anthropic and many others in the industry,” said Senator Wiener in a statement to TechCrunch. “These amendments build on significant changes to SB 1047 I made previously to accommodate the unique needs of the open source community, which is an important source of innovation.” SB 1047 still aims to prevent large AI systems from killing lots of people, or causing cybersecurity events that cost over $500 million, by holding developers liable. However, the bill now grants California’s government less power to hold AI labs to account.

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