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Who’s Going to Regulate AI?

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Why are national politicians like Nancy Pelosi lining up alongside artificial intelligence companies to oppose safety regulations on this new industry proposed in California’s state legislature? 


Guest: Rachael Myrow, senior editor on KQED’s Silicon Valley news desk.


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probably election-related, like the image of Taylor Swift dressed like Uncle Sam, appearing to endorse

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Donald Trump. He posted that one on tooth social, or another of someone who

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looks like Kamala Harris addressing a communist rally or

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Trump himself dancing with Elon Musk. But these AI-generated images are not what

1:20.4

Rachel Myro is thinking about. I'll admit, maybe contrary to a lot of tech reporters,

1:27.0

I'm not alarmed by it precisely because many of these deep fakes are obviously deep fakes.

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Rachel is the senior editor on the Silicon Valley Desk at KQED, the Northern California Public Radio Network.

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She's focused instead on something happening in her home state.

1:50.3

Yes indeed, SB 1047 by state senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco.

1:56.0

It's a state bill to regulate AI.

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And judging by the response from the big AI companies,

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