This is a tough call and will make some people upset, but, all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill. For over 20 years, I have been an advocate for AI regulation, just as we regulate any product/technology that is a potential risk.
The bill seeks to require developers to create safety protocols, to be able to shut down a runaway AI model, to report security incidents, to give rights to whistleblowers inside AI companies... and to create liabilities for companies if their AI software runs out of control.
It is however opposed by venture capitalists like Marc Andreessen and is even hotly disputed among AI luminaries: Meta chief AI officer Yann LeCun opposes the bill while AlexNet's co-creator Geoffrey Hinton supports it.
Up to now the only regulatory framework that exists focuses on only the largest supercomputers with 10^26 power floating-point operations, which cost more than $100 million to train.
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