Politico: Gavin Newsom and Silicon Valley Quash AI Safety Effort
The Center for AI Policy was recently featured in a Politico article by Jeremy B. White and Lara Korte titled "How California politics killed a nationally important AI bill." Here are two highlights from the piece:
- The demise of California’s big swing at artificial intelligence safety underscored the powerful forces arrayed against regulation that’s seen as going too far.
- “[The bill] would have spurred Congress to act,” said Jason Green-Lowe, executive director at the Center for AI Policy, a nonprofit with ties to the effective altruism movement. “Now there’s even more need for Congress and the next president to take a stand on AI safety. But this California bill could have bought us some time and showed the way forward.”
Read Politico's full coverage of the SB 1047 veto here.
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