California legislature passes controversial "kill switch" AI safety bill
Briefly

"We cannot let corporations grade their own homework and simply put out nice-sounding assurances. We don't accept this in other technologies such as pharmaceuticals..." - Yoshua Bengio
"This well-meaning legislation will have significant unintended consequences, not just for California but for the entire country." - Fei-Fei Li
"This bill outlines a bare minimum for effective regulation of frontier AI models and will avoid any impacts on smaller startups." - Yoshua Bengio
Some have criticized the bill for focusing on outlandish risks from imagined future AI rather than real, present-day harms of AI use cases like deep fakes or misinformation.
Read at Ars Technica
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