The Governor will engage the world’s leading experts on GenAI to help California implement GenAI, with a focus on developing an empirical, science-based trajectory analysis of the frontier model, its capabilities, and the risks associated with it. We asked them to help develop workable guardrails. The Governor will continue to work with the Legislature on this important issue during the next session.
Building on the partnership created after the California Governor’s 2023 Executive Order, California is a member of the “godfather of AI,” Dr. Fei-Fei Li, and the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Social and Ethical Impact. He will be collaborating with Tino Cuellar. Computing Research and Jennifer Tour-Chayes, chair of the Department of Computing, Data Science, and Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, discuss this important project. Here’s what these leading experts had to say:
“Frontier AI brings the potential for tremendous benefits as well as real risks that require continued and deliberate judgment. ” — Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuellar, Chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Member of the Committee on the Social and Ethical Implications of Computing Research, National Academy of Sciences, “University of California, Berkeley. “We are honored to continue our partnership with the University of California, Stanford University, and Governor Newsom,” leveraging some of the world’s best scientists and thinkers on AI, many of them right here in California. It is important to foster a robust innovation economy and foster academic research. This is how we ensure that AI benefits the most people in the most ways, while protecting against bad actors and serious harm. The Department of Computing, Data Science, and Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, stands ready to provide cutting-edge science and policy recommendations to ensure we achieve these goals. ” — Jennifer Tour Chase, Chair of the Department of Computing, Data Science, and Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, Society “Safe and responsible AI is essential to California’s vibrant innovation ecosystem. To manage AI, we must rely on scientific evidence to determine how best to foster innovation and reduce risk. HAI was established with the specific mission of ensuring the development of California through Governor Newsom’s Executive Order on GenAI to ensure California’s leadership in safe, vibrant, and beneficial AI. We look forward to our continued partnership.” — Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Co-Director of the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
The Newsom administration will also immediately work with academia to convene labor stakeholders and convene the private sector to explore approaches to using GenAI technology in the workplace. The Government is committed to continuing its partnership with public sector trade unions in leading government procurement.
Today, Governor Newsom authorized the California Department of Emergency Services to expand its work to assess potential threats to California’s critical infrastructure posed by the use of GenAI, including those that could lead to mass casualty incidents. signed a bill requiring it. The bill, SB 896, by Sen. Bill Dodd (D-Napa) codifies aspects of the Governor’s recent Executive Order, effective September 2023. At the Governor’s direction, California OES is collaborating with Frontier Model Companies to analyze energy infrastructure risks and convene power sector convening providers. Share threats and security strategies. Building on previous work, and under SB 896, the Governor directed California OES to conduct similar risk assessments for water infrastructure providers next year and for the Department of Communications shortly thereafter. Read the signature message here.
Governor Newsom vetoed SB 1047, one of several GenAI bills considered by the California Legislature this year. Read the veto message here.
