Welcome to the Tech Me married home for Monday, September 30th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed AI Safety Bill SB 1047 saying it applies

only to large AI models and doesn't account for if deployment is high risk.

This was that AI bill that a lot of the AI community and AI VCs were very worried about,

quoting the journal.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a controversial

artificial intelligence safety bill that pitted some of the biggest

tech companies against prominent scientists who developed the technology. The

Democrat decided to reject the measure because it applies only to the biggest and most expensive AI models and doesn't take into account whether they are deployed in high-risk situations, he said in his veto message. Smaller models sometimes handle critical

decision-making involving sensitive data such as electrical grids and medical

records, while bigger models at times handle low-risk activities such as customer service. Had Newsom

signed the bill into law it would have laid the groundwork for how AI is

regulated across the US as California is home to the top companies in the industry.

Proposals to regulate AI nationally

have made little progress in Washington.

The governor announced that he is working

with leading AI researchers including

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