Artificial intelligence is moving quickly. It’s now able to mimic humans convincingly enough to fuel massive phone scams or spin up nonconsensual deepfake imagery of celebrities to be used in harassment campaigns. The urgency to regulate this technology has never been more critical — so, that’s what California, home to many of AI’s biggest players, is trying to do with a bill known as SB 1047.
” Both innovators and regulators, she said, are still navigating how to define, and protect, open-source AI in the context of regulation. A weakened SB 1047 is better than nothing The result of the criticism was a significantly softer second draft of SB 1047, which passed out of committee on August 15th. In the new SB 1047, the proposed regulatory agency has been removed, and the attorney general can no longer sue developers for major safety incidents.