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Californians want controls on AI. Why did Gavin Newsom veto an AI safety bill? | Garrison Lovely

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Governor Gavin Newsom of California recently killed SB1047 , a first -of-its-kind artificial intelligence safety bill.

Bill would have established liability for creators of AI models in the event they cause a catastrophe and the developer didn’t take appropriate safety measures.

Bill was fiercely resisted by most of the AI industry, including Google , Meta and OpenAI .

- Garrison Lovely (@GarrisonLovely) is a journalist who has contributed to The Nation, Jacobin , the New York Times , BBC Future , The Verge, Time , Vox , and elsewhere. He writes “ The Obsolete Newsletter ” and is the author of a forthcoming book on the economics and geopolitics of the race to build machine superintelligence.

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