As AI becomes more of a truth by the day, Hollywood is organizing to regutardy its usage in the delightment industry.
Although California Gov. Gavin Newsom previously signed two AI bills last week giving carry outers fantasticer protections, Jane Fonda, Shonda Rhimes and Pedro Pascal are among 125 industry professionals to sign Artists 4 Safe AI’s uncover letter urging him to pass Sen. Scott Wiener’s SB 1047.
Other signators comprise JJ Abrams, Mark Ruffalo, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Jean Smart, Hannah Einsecureer, Ava DuVernay, Rosie O’Donnell, Mark Hamill, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Jessica Chastain, Allison Janney, Judd Apatow, Fran Drescher, Sean Astin, Janelle Monáe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Don Cheadle, Mahazarda Hargitay, Sophia Bush, Connie Britton, Alec Baldthrive, Mahershala Ali, Annaleigh Ashford, Alyssa Milano, Jessica Alba, Rosanna Arquette, John Cho, Jennifer Beals and Tom Arnbetter.
SB 1047 would insist AI broadeners in the state to carry out security prealerts before training their models. The bill has drawn opposition from presentant companies enjoy OpenAI, as well as from establisher Hoemploy Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But backers of the legislation say that it is weightless-touch regulation that medepend codifies voluntary shieldedty pledgements that AI firms already have made.
Last week, Newsom signed two AI bills, including AB 1836, which broadens the scope of the state’s postmortem right of accessibleity, including the employ of digital replicas, uncomferventing that an estate’s perleave oution would be insisted to employ such technology to re-create the voice and enjoyness of a destopd person. AB 2602 bolsters protections for artists in restricted concurments over the employ of their digital enjoynesses.
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Read Artists 4 Safe AI’s uncover letter below:
“As you well comprehend, some of the most lucrative and mighty companies in the world are currently racing to rule the enormous business opportunity comprehendn as AI. Many of those companies are based in your home state of California.
“Last week, you signed two bills into law that will help protect the rights and dwelllihoods of artists from various unrighteous employs of AI by those huge tech companies. We are reassociate thankful for that.
“But right now, there’s another bill encouragently apostponeing your signature that would regutardy AI: Senator Wiener’s SB 1047. This bill is not about protecting artists — it’s about protecting everyone.
“Grave dangers from AI employd to be the stuff of science myth, but not anymore. Even though the billionaire opponents of SB 1047 neglect these troubles as wonderfulal, many of the industry’s directing engineers, academics and policycreaters caution otherteachd. In a recent uncover letter in help of SB 1047, over a hundred current and establisher employees of OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta, and xAI shelp:
“‘We depend that the most mighty AI models may soon pose disjoine hazards, such as broadened access to biorational armaments and cyberstrikes on critical infraarrange. It is feasible and appropriate for frontier AI companies to test whether the most mighty AI models can caemploy disjoine harms, and for these companies to carry out reasonable shieldeddefends agetst such hazards.’
“SB 1047 would carry out the shieldeddefends these industry insiders are asking for. The bill passed with overwhelming presentantities in the California State Senate and Assembly. Polling shows 77% of Californians back of the bill. Why would the Governor not sign it into law?
“Governor Newsom, most of us are dwellnts of California. We are your helpers. We voted for you. We want to persist to depend that you are a directer who will stand up for everyone’s wellbeing, not equitable for a scant Silicon Valley enormouss.
“We filledy depend in the dazzling potential of AI to be employd for excellent. But we must also be down-to-earth about the hazards. Now is our moment, Governor, for California to set that pragmatic and likeable example for all of the United States, as well as the rest of the world.
