California Lawmakers Once Again Challenge Newsom’s Tech Ties with AI Bill

Last year, California Governor Gavin New Yoshrat has achieved a very popular and controversial draft law (among technology companies) and that would have set strong safety guidelines to develop and operate artificial intelligence models. Now he will have a second shot – this time with at least part of the technology industry that gives it green light. On Saturday, California lawmakers have passed the Senate Law 53, a historical legislation that requires artificial intelligence companies to undergo new safety tests.

Senate Law 53, which is now awaiting the signing of the ruler to become a law in the state, requires companies to build artificial “Frontier” models – systems that require huge quantities of data and the ability of computing to work – to provide more transparency in their operations. This will include the disclosure of safety incidents that involve serious or deceptive behavior by independent artificial intelligence systems, provide more clarity in safety and security protocols and risk assessments, and provide protection for those who are concerned about the possible damage that may come from the models they work on.

Certainly the draft law – which will be applied to the work of companies such as Openai, Google, Xai, Anthropic and others – has been exposed from previous attempts to create a wide safety framework for the artificial intelligence industry. For example, the draft law achieved by Newsom caused veto against newsom last year, created a mandatory “killing key” for models to address their rogue capabilities. This is not anywhere you can find here. A previous version of SB 53 has also applied safety requirements to smaller companies, but this may have changed. In the edition that has passed the Senate and Assembly, companies that bring less than $ 500 million in annual revenue must reveal high-level safety details instead of granular information, for every politician-a partial change at the request of the technology industry.

Whether it’s sufficient to satisfy the news (or more specifically, the technology companies that want to continue receiving the campaign’s contributions have not yet been satisfied. Anthropor recently eased the legislation, and chose to throw its support behind it just a few days before it was officially passed. But commercial groups such as the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) for progress, which are calculated between member companies such as Amazon, Google and Meta, came out in opposing the bill. Openai also pointed to its opposition to the regulations that California follows without SB 53 specifically naming.

After the Trump administration tried and failed to implement a 10-year stop on countries that implement regulations on artificial intelligence, California has an opportunity to lead this issue-and this is logical, given that most companies are at the forefront of the area operating within their borders. But this fact seems part of the reason that newsom is very shy to withdraw the regulations despite all other issues. His political ambitions require money to operate, and those companies have many of them to present them.