California Gov Newsom warns against over-regulating AI
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OTOH, 'If we chase a shiny object, we could put ourselves in a perilous position'
  • h3ndrik@feddit.de
    6·
    5 months ago

    Idk. Regulating how many pedestrians and bicyclists the autonomous cars are allowed to run over in a year seems to be a good idea to me. Depends a bit on what kind of law they come up with. And if they mean copyright is a burden to OpenAI… Then I want in on it, too. You should allow pirating eBooks and Marvel movies and Scarlett Johanssons voices to everyone, not just big tech companies.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
    4·
    5 months ago

    I’ve got mixed feelings on Newsom. He’s definitely part of the corporate Democrat enclave but he’s also a reasonably effective governor. He’s called the DNC out for not being aggressive enough, but I simultaneously doubt that Newsom would represent any meaningful change to that status quo. He kind of feels like Obama 2.0 to me. He’d be over hyped on the left as the second coming of FDR, and on the right as the second coming of Lenin himself, and in practice he’d be another pretty centrist pro-imperialist/corporatist.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    California Governor Gavin Newsom wants his state’s legislators to know that he appreciates their efforts to put the home of Silicon Valley at the forefront of AI regulation, but he’s still concerned heavy-handed laws could stifle innovation.

    Newsom argued California was already leading in terms of adopting AI for government use, citing the state’s machine-learning experiments in traffic management and language access.

    Newsom said the state is currently developing more AI projects, including how to use the technology to tackle the homelessness crisis.

    “If we over-regulate, if we overindulge, if we chase a shiny object we could put ourselves in a perilous position,” Newsom said.

    Newsom vetoed legislation last year that would have required a human driver in commercial autonomous trucks, describing it as unnecessary.

    Other proposed legislative measures include building systems to assess AI safety and allow actors to break contracts if their digital likenesses are used without their consent.

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