“By focusing only on the most expensive and large-scale models, SB 1047 establishes a regulatory framework that could give the public a false sense of security about controlling this fast-moving technology.”
Newsom opens by noting that California hosts 32 of the world’s 50 leading AI companies. Then he vetoes the bill that would have put safeguards on the biggest of them, on the grounds that it does not cover enough. He wants rules “informed by an empirical trajectory analysis” instead. The largest labs walk away with no rules today and a promise of better ones someday.