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SB 1047

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SB 1047

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SB 1047 is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between September 12, 2024 and October 24, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “New voices in favor of SB 1047 California bill on regulating AI”; “SB 1047, the bill to regulate AI, has passed California’s legislature”; “This is part of the story behind SB 1047 - specifically, the only part I have any personal connection to”. It most often appears alongside California, Elon Musk, Governor Newsom.

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  • Category: Events
  • Mention count: 4
  • Issue count: 4
  • First seen: September 12, 2024
  • Last seen: October 24, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Links For September 2024
September 12, 2024 · Original source
44: New voices in favor of SB 1047 California bill on regulating AI - Elon Musk, net neutrality + open software hero Lawrence Lessig, and formerly-skeptical AI company Anthropic. Meanwhile, opponents are sticking to their talking point that it’s an attempt by incumbents to shut down upstart competitors (funny; the biggest incumbent, OpenAI, is against it), and trying to muddy the waters with really dumb polls.
Inline links: Elon Musk, Lawrence Lessig, Anthropic, is against it, really dumb polls
Open Thread 347
September 16, 2024 · Original source
3: SB 1047, the bill to regulate AI, has passed California’s legislature and is now in front of Governor Newsom, who is reported to be considering vetoing it. If you want to let him know your opinion, you can read more about how to do so here.
Inline links: here
SB 1047: Our Side Of The Story
October 10, 2024 · Original source
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.
Notes From The Progress Studies Conference
October 24, 2024 · Original source
I got to attend a session on SB 1047, the recently-vetoed California AI regulation bill. The most interesting thing I learned was that California’s position as home to all big American AI companies was irrelevant - the bill could have equally well been in New York or Texas. Any state can try to regulate any industry, and the industry has to comply or leave the state; it’s almost never worth the economic loss to abandon big states, so legislation in any big state has nationwide effects. Everyone agrees this is awkward, but the Supreme Court recently confirmed that it was true in a ruling on Prop 12, California’s law demanding better conditions for factory-farmed pigs. California doesn’t have a lot of factory-farmed pigs, so this law primarily demanded that other states give their pigs better conditions if they wanted to sell pork in California (which they all do). The Supreme Court said this was fine, and presumably would make the same decision if New York or Texas tried to regulate AI. The federal government tends to think of these situations as an invitation to step in (though it hasn’t with Prop 12), and if too many states make too many confusing regulations then Congress will probably pass a law to sort things out. But for now, it’s a free-for-all.
Inline links: Prop 12