California AI bill could create state agency to regulate technology

San Francisco Chronicle / 9-13-23

California has taken one more step toward regulating the booming AI industry, this time with a broad strokes bill from state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, aiming to regulate how the technology is built and its effects on Californians.

The bill envisions creating a state agency or tasking an existing agency with guiding and regulating responsible development of the technology, while also putting some onus on developers to ensure their technology isn’t used for malicious purposes. The legislation would also require companies working on AI models to test them for safety risks, and inform the state how they would mitigate those risks when problems arise.

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The so-called “intent bill” introduced at the end of the current session will not move through the legislature this year, but is intended to generate discussion for a future legislative push.

“As a society, we made a mistake by allowing social media to become widely adopted without first evaluating the risks and putting guardrails in place. Repeating the same mistake around AI would be far more costly,” Wiener added, noting the technology also had the potential to change people’s lives for the better.

LINK (paywall): https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/california-ai-bill-create-new-state-agency-18364599.php

According to the link, last week Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order that would study the risks and potential benefits of using AI — including within the state government — with an eye to avoiding the technology’s potential to amplify bias.

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Bias???

From the link: AI chatbots and other products are largely trained on large language datasets scraped from the internet, which can inadvertently instill the biases and attitudes of the open web into how they answer questions.

Just what society needs: artificially created bias.



Do we really need this AI shit?