The California Assembly and Senate have passed the Safe and Secure Innovation for Cutting-Edge Artificial Intelligence Models Act (SB 1047), one of the first significant pieces of artificial intelligence regulation in the United States.
The bill, which has become a flashpoint in Silicon Valley and beyond, would require AI companies operating in California to take several precautions before training advanced underlying models, including being able to shut down the models quickly and completely, ensuring that models are protected from “unsafe post-training modifications,” and maintaining testing procedures to assess whether the model or its derivatives pose a particularly high risk of “causing or enabling significant harm.”
