SB 1047
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SB 1047 is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between October 10, 2024 and December 17, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Should we have audits for “frontier” AI models? Should we have whistleblower protections for employees at frontier labs? Should there be transparency requirements of some kind on the labs?”; “SB 1047 has proven that AI doomers are willing to stand up to Big Tech”; “some of the better SB 1047 coverage more recently”. It most often appears alongside Garrison Lovely, Marc Andreesen, Meta.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: October 10, 2024
- Last seen: December 17, 2024
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A few months later, she was informed that the Senator had really taken her words to heart, and he'd been thinking hard about how he could help. This is part of the story behind SB 1047 - specifically, the only part I have any personal connection to. The rest of this post comes from anonymous sources in the pro-1047 community who wanted to tell their side of the story.
(In case you’re just joining us - SB 1047 is a California bill, recently passed by the legislature but vetoed by the governor - which forced AI companies to take some steps to reduce the risk of AI-caused existential catastrophes. See here for more on the content of the bill and the arguments for and against; this post will limit itself to the political fight.)
Inline links: here
Along the way SB 1047 picked up an impressive number of endorsements.
48: Garrison Lovely published the Confessions Of A McKinsey Whistleblower piece a few years ago and some of the better SB 1047 coverage more recently. He has a new Substack focusing on AI and his concerns about the big companies.
Inline links: Confessions Of A McKinsey Whistleblower