The author of SB 1047 of California, the most controversial security invoice of the AI of the Nation of 2024, has returned with a new law of the law that Silicon Valley could shake.
California state senator, Scott Wiener, presented a New bill On Friday, that would protect employees in the main Laboratories of AI, which allows them to talk if they think that their company’s AI systems could be a “critical risk” for society. The new bill, SB 53, would also create a public cloud computing cluster, called Re -compute, to provide researchers and new companies with the necessary computer resources to develop AI that benefits the public.
Wiener’s last AI bill, SB 1047 of California, caused a lively debate throughout the country on how to handle massive AI systems that could cause disasters. SB 1047 aimed at Avoid the possibility that very large models create catastrophic eventssuch as causing loss of lives or cyber attacks that cost more than $ 500 million in damages. However, Governor Gavin Newsom finally vetoed the bill in September, saying SB 1047 was not the best approach.
But the debate on SB 1047 quickly became ugly. Some Silicon Valley leaders said SB 1047 would damage the competitive advantage of the United States In the global career of AI, and affirmed that the bill was inspired by the unrealistic fears that AI systems could cause the day of the day of the end of the world similar to science fiction. Meanwhile, Senator Wiener claimed that some risk capitalists participated in a “Propaganda campaign” against your billIn part to the statement of and Combinator that SB 1047 would send to the beginnings of the beginning to the prison, argued that the claim experts were misleading.
SB 53 essentially takes the least controversial parties of SB 1047, such as the protections of complainants and the establishment of a Dista cluster, and re -packaging them in a new AI bill.
In particular, Wiener is not avoiding the risk of existential in SB 53. The new bill specifically protects complainants who believe that their employers are creating AI systems that represent a “critical risk.” The bill defines critical risk as a “Foresty or material risk that the development, storage or deployment of a fundamental model of a developer, as defined, results in death or serious injuries to more than 100 people, or more than $ 1 billion in damages to the rights in money or property. “
SB 53 limits the developers of the IA border models, probably including OpenAi, Anthrope and XAI, among others, for reprisals against employees who disseminate the information to the Attorney General, the federal authorities or other employees of California. According to the bill, these developers should inform complainants about certain internal processes that complainants find worrying.
As for Compute, SB 53 would establish a group to build a public cloud computing cluster. The group would consist of representatives of the University of California, as well as other public and private researchers. He would make recommendations on how to build Declapute, how big the cluster must be and which users and organizations should have access to it.
Of course, it is very early in the legislative process for SB 53. The bill must be reviewed and approved by the legislative agencies of California before reaching the desktop of Governor Newsom. State legislators will surely be waiting for Silicon Valley’s reaction to SB 53.
However, 2025 may be a more difficult year to approve IA security invoices compared to 2024. California approved 18 bills related to AI in 2024, but now It seems that the Ai Doom movement has lost ground.
Vice President JD Vance pointed out at the AI Ai Summit in Paris that the United States is not interested in the safety of AI, but prioritizes the innovation of AI. While the decading cluster established by SB 53 could surely be seen as the advancement of AI progress, it is not clear how legislative efforts around the risk of existential will go in 2025.