The California legislators again challenge the technical relationships of Newsom with AI Bill

Last year the governor of California, Gavin Newsom Veto evaluated A popular (in public) and wildly controversial (under technology companies) law that has determined robust security guidelines for the development and operation of artificial intelligence models. Now he will have a second shot – this is time with at least a part of the Tech industry that gives him the green light. On Saturday, The California legislators said goodbye Senate Bill 53, a groundbreaking legislation that AI companies have to subject new security tests.

Senate Bill 53What is now waiting for the governor’s signature in order to become laws in the state must companies that have “border” KI models building -systems that require massive data and computing power -in order to provide more transparency into their processes. This includes the disclosure of security incidents with dangerous or misleading behavior through autonomous AI systems, more clarity in security protocols and risk reviews as well as protection for whistleblower that deal with the potential damage that comes from models.

The legislative template, which would apply to the work of companies such as Openai, Google, Xai, Anthropic and others, was certainly dulled by previous attempts to set up a wide security framework for the AI ​​industry. For example, the legislative template that Newsom lodged last year would have set up a mandatory “Kill Switch” for models to remedy the potential of them. This is nowhere to be found here. An earlier version of SB 53 also applied the safety requirements for smaller companies, but that has changed. In the version that has passed the Senate and the meeting, companies that have less than $ 500 million for annual turnover must contribute For politicians– a change that was partially made at the behest of the Tech industry.

Whether this is sufficient to satisfy Newsom (or more precisely, satisfactory the technology companies, from which he would like to continue to receive Campaign contributions) still has to be seen. Anthropic was recently raised and decided in legislation Throw his support behind it Only days before it has officially passed. But trade groups like them Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Chamber of progressThose who count among its members of companies such as Amazon, Google and Meta have opposed the invoice. Openaai too signaled his opposition California has followed the regulations without expressly naming SB 53.

After the Trump government tried and failed to implement a 10-year moratorium In the states that implement regulations for AI, California has the opportunity to guide themselves on this topic – which makes sense, since most companies work at the top of the room within its borders. But this fact also seems to be part of the reason Newsom is so shy to pull the deduction On regulations despite All its stormy in many other topics. His political ambitions require money to run and this Companies have a lot to offer.