California’s new AI safety law shows regulation and innovation don’t have to clash

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/05/californias-new-ai-safety-law-shows-regulation-and-innovation-dont-have-to-clash/

California’s new AI safety law shows regulation and innovation don’t have to clash

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/californias-new-ai-safety-law-shows-regulation-and-innovation-dont-have-to-clash/

Thank you #ScottWiener

#SB1047 and #SB53 are great steps to ensure that we have #FreedomOfSpeech and #Whistleblower protections while #AI continues to scale and improve.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/the-author-of-sb-1047-introduces-a-new-ai-bill-in-california/

"It’s part of the established playbook that Big Tech — which Andreessen and Horowitz are closely aligned with, despite their posturing — runs at the state level where it can win (as with SB 1047), meanwhile asking for federal solutions that it knows will never come, or which will have no teeth due to partisan bickering and congressional ineptitude on technical issues.

This newly posted joint statement about “policy opportunity” is the latter part of the play: After torpedoing SB 1047, they can say they only did so with an eye to supporting a federal policy. No matter that we are still waiting on the federal privacy law that tech companies have pushed for a decade while fighting state bills.

And what policies do they support? “A variety of responsible market-based approaches.” In other words: hands off our money, Uncle Sam.

Regulations should have “a science and standards-based approach that recognizes regulatory frameworks that focus on the application and misuse of technology,” and should “focus on the risk of bad actors misusing AI,” write the powerful VCs and Microsoft execs. What is meant by this is we shouldn’t have proactive regulation but instead reactive punishments when unregulated products are used by criminals for criminal purposes.

This approach worked great for that whole FTX situation, so I can see why they espouse it.

“Regulation should be implemented only if its benefits outweigh its costs,” they also write. It would take thousands of words to unpack all the ways that this idea, expressed in this context, is hilarious. But basically, what they are suggesting is that the fox be brought in on the henhouse planning committee."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/01/microsoft-and-a16z-set-aside-differences-join-hands-in-plea-against-ai-regulation/

#AI #AIRegulation #USA #California #SB1047 #Microsoft #a16z #BigTech

Is there a trusted source that analyses California's SB 1047 - back in the day I would look for Sarah Jeong's takes, but she doesn't seem to be on social media anymore :(

#sb1047

Over 125 Hollywood actors, directors, producers, music artists and entertainment industry leaders call on #GavinNewsom to sign AI safety bill #SB1047

Read more: https://Artists4SafeAI.com

Please re-share this: https://signsb1047.com/s/yeB7vNpZ

#california #AIsafety #newsom #law #safety #ConsumerProtection #ai #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence