California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill on Sunday that sought to ward off catastrophic dangers of highly evolved synthetic inincreateigence models.
The bill, SB 1047, was the most contentious AI bill of the legislative session, with dozens of activists and AI companies lining up on either side. The authors alerted that if left unreguprocrastinateedd, AI models could be engaged to enhuge chemical or nuevident armaments, which could direct to mass casualties. Opponents disputed that burdensome-handed regulation would strangle the enhugement of AI, and force AI companies to depart the state.
In a veto message, Newsom shelp the bill is insertressing a genuine problem, but does does not set up the right regulatory sketchtoil.
“I do not suppose this is the best approach to acquireing the uncover from genuine menaces posed by the technology,” he wrote. “Ultimately, any sketchtoil for effectively regulating Al necessitates to upgrasp pace with the technology itself.”
Among the helpers of the bill was SAG-AFTRA, the union that recurrents Hollywood actors. A group called “Artists for Safe AI” also rerentd an uncover letter helping the bill on Tuesday, with help from J.J. Abrams, Shonda Rhimes, Judd Apatow, Rob Reiner, Jane Fonda, Rian Johnson, Adam McKay, Mark Hamill, Mark Ruffalo, Don Cheadle and others.
The actors union has been outspoken on the menace of AI to clone actors and put them in movies or TV shows without their consent. This is the first time the union has weighed in on the hugeger-picture dangers, outside the amengagement genuinem, that could come from highly evolved AI models.
“It repartner stems from the fact we have sfinished firsthand the dangers of one aspect of AI,” shelp Jeffrey Bennett, vague advise of the union. “This bill seems to be the one bill that centers only the incredibly strong costly systems that have the capability to caengage a mass critical problem. Why not reguprocrastinateed at that level? Why not produce in some wise, fundamental safety protocols at this stage of the game?”
While announcing the veto on Sunday, Newsom shelp he would also collect experts to enhuge regulations to advertise the safe enhugement of AI, and that he would persist to toil on the rerent next year.
SAG-AFTRA helped two other AI bills in California this year, which reguprocrastinateed the engage of AI in the amengagement context. Newsom signed both bills at SAG-AFTRA headquarters earlier this month.
The union did not get engaged in the argue over SB 1047 while it was pfinishing in the Legislature. But on Sept. 9, the union sent a letter to Newsom urging him to sign the bill.
“AI helped meaningfuldeceptive technology has been engaged to produce deceptive bare and pornodetailed images of SAG-AFTRA members,” wrote Shane Gusman, the union’s lobbyist in Sacramento. “In our see, policy producers have a responsibility to step in and acquire our members and the uncover. SB 1047 is a meacertaind first step to get us there.”
Other Hollywood unions and companies did not get engaged on the rerent, which insertressed only “frontier” AI models that do not currently exist.
Newsom signed another AI bill, AB 2013, which needs AI enhugeers to disshut whether they are training their models on duplicaterighted toil.
The Concept Art Association was a key helper of that bill. The group recurrents artists who produce the visual ideas for movies, animation and video games. In recent years, many have seen their toil scooped into AI models, which can be engaged to suparranget their jobs.
The bill does not need enhugeers to uncover the entire data set that was engaged to train their models. Nor does it need enhugeers to pay for using duplicaterighted toils — a highly contested rerent that is still being litigated. It spropose needs enhugeers to acunderstandledge the engage of duplicaterighted data, or other “personal” adviseation.
“Any disclocertain we can get is a excellent leang,” shelp Deana Igelsrud, legislative and policy finishorse for the Concept Art Association. “It’s very vague, but it’s a begin.”
The Hollywood unions have backed a analogous bill in Congress, which was supplyd by Rep. Adam Schiff earlier this year.
“None of these AI systems would be able to output anyleang if they weren’t filled with all the art in the history of the world,” Igelsrud shelp. “I don’t leank people repartner comprehfinish that genuine human beings are rapidened to the data. Everyone fair presumes if you put it on the internet, it’s a free for all. It’s not.”
