The sprawling California legislation offers protection to whistleblowers and citizens. The coming weeks could decide its fate.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, on May 14, 2024. State lawmakers are weighing a bill that would regulate powerful artificial intelligence systems, but Meta and Google say the bill fundamentally misunderstands the industry and would hamper the state's growing AI market.LAist is facing a budget shortfall, but our mission to provide fact-based journalism is stronger than ever. We cannot do this important work without your member support today.
Protect whistleblowers at companies that are building advanced forms of AI and contractors to those companies. Kokotaljo said he believes that, had SB 1047 been in effect, it would have either prevented, or led an employee to promptly report, the safety violation he said he witnessed in 2022, involving an early deployment of an OpenAI model by Microsoft to a few thousand users in India without approval.
OpenAI spokesperson Hannah Wong said the company removed nondisparagement terms affecting departing employees. Despite these changes, last month a group of former OpenAI employeesRebecca Bauer-Kahan Opponents counter that small businesses would still suffer because SB 1047 would have a chilling effect on individuals and groups that release AI models and tools free to the public as open source software. Such software is widely used by startups, holding down costs and providing them a basis on which to build new tools.
Open source defenders also voiced opposition to SB 1047 at a town hall hosted with Wiener at GitHub, an open source repository owned by Microsoft, and a generative AI symposium held in May.Newsom, who has not taken a position on the legislation, told the audience it’s important to respond to AI inventors like Geoffrey Hinton who insist on the need for regulation , but also said he wants California to remain an AI leader and advised lawmakers against overreach.
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