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• Vox Vox on x

  California's governor has vetoed a historic AI safety bill

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on threads

  Good to see California avoided doing something really stupid.  This will would have been the new AB5, but worse. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on threads

  Not a big surprise, but regulators and companies need to sort out their relationship soon: https://www.wsj.com/...

• @scott_wiener Senator Scott Wiener on x

  My statement on the Governor's veto of SB 1047: [Excerpt: “this veto is a setback for everyone who believes in oversight of massive corporations that are making critical decisions that affect the safety and welfare of the public and the future of the planet..."]

• @speakerpelosi Nancy Pelosi on x

  AI springs from California. Thank you, @CAgovernor Newsom, for recognizing the opportunity and responsibility we all share to enable small entrepreneurs and academia - not big tech - to dominate. https://www.gov.ca.gov/...

• @amir Amir Efrati on x

  Also, Gavin Newsom's stated reason for his veto of AI regulation bill SB1047 makes ~no sense~.

• @pt Parker on x

  It's great to see a political leader stand up to intense pressure from special interests, PR campaigns focused on swaying popular opinion, misguided academics, and industry laggards that want government to put their thumb on the scale in a rapidly-evolving industry. Also really

• @garrisonlovely Garrison Lovely on x

  Newsom vetoed SB 1047. The reasoning given here is so transparently weak. Like even if you bought that smaller models were JUST as likely to cause problems, why wouldn't it be better to regulate some models while you work on more comprehensive regulations? This justification... […

• @drfeifei Fei-Fei Li on x

  It's an honor for me and @StanfordHAI to work with @CAgovernor @GavinNewsom and our fellow ecosystem partners to pave a path forward in the responsible governance of AI in California, the beating heart of AI innovation. Much work is ahead for all of us. Thank you @CAgovernor for

• @garrytan Garry Tan on x

  Great news for innovation, startups, San Francisco AND California. This thank you @GavinNewsom for preserving the ability for smart engineers to create the future

• @plinz Joscha Bach on x

  SB 1047 is not the solution. If you are not throwing soup at midjourney paintings or glueing yourself to strawberries you are not doing it right

• @shiringhaffary Shirin Ghaffary on x

  Sen. Wiener says SB 1047 has “dramatically advanced the issue of AI safety on the international stage,” and calls the veto “a missed opportunity for California to once again lead on innovative tech regulation”

• @daveshapi David Shapiro on x

  Gavin Newsom vetoed SB1047 and one of the reasons was that regulation “must be based on empirical evidence and science.” This is a victory for real rationalists. [image]

• @martin_casado @martin_casado on x

  Huge thank you to Andrew for his leadership in highlighting the issues with SB 1047. Please take a moment to thank him. We wouldn't be here without his work.

• @jackclarksf Jack Clark on x

  We think the core of the bill - mandating developers produce meaningful security and safety policies about their most powerful AI systems, and ensuring some way of checking they're following their own policies - is a prerequisite for building a large and thriving AI industry.

• @shiringhaffary Shirin Ghaffary on x

  Anthropic co-founder and head of policy Jack Clark responding to Gov Newsom's veto on SB 1047. Unlike its competitor OpenAI, Anthropic was to some degree supportive of the bill — said the benefits outweighed the negatives

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  AI is only in its infancy, and while we absolutely must ensure the technology is developed in a thoughtful and safe way, we need to avoid a patchwork system of regulations that can risk slowing down innovation. Kudos to @GavinNewsom for making this hard, but well informed [image]

• @martin_casado @martin_casado on x

  gg ... we did it fam SB 1047 vetoed [image]

• @lutherlowe Luther Lowe on x

  Thank you for vetoing SB1047, @GavinNewsom 🫡 https://www.gov.ca.gov/...

• @npew Peter Welinder on x

  Glad SB 1047 was vetoed. Premature regulation is like premature optimization: feels good but hinders optimal solutions.

• @timsweeneyepic Tim Sweeney on x

  The path forward should always be to enforce laws against clear and specific wrongs, not to regulate and governmentize the availability and use of tools such as pens, printing presses, computers, and ai.

• @bindureddy Bindu Reddy on x

  Wow! We won! LFG 🚀🚀🚀🚀 [image]

• @tszzl Roon on x

  SB1047 was a fairly reasonable bill that just needs to raise the $500mm in damages number to like $10-100bb

• @jeremybwhite Jeremy B. White on x

  San Francisco's politically powerful VCs are happy @GavinNewsom killed #SB1047 — likely none more influential than @RonConway, who activated his network against it (and has a longstanding relationship w former SF mayor Newsom)

• @garrytan Garry Tan on x

  Grateful to @GavinNewsom for vetoing SB 1047 & supporting innovation in California Huge thanks to the @ycombinator community for rallying since June to advocate for responsible AI development without stifling startups. Together, we'll keep pushing tech forward! 🚀

• @danhendrycks Dan Hendrycks on x

  A broad bipartisan coalition came together to support SB 1047, including many academic researchers (including Turing Award winners Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton), the California legislature, 77% of California voters, 120+ employees at frontier AI companies, 100+ youth

• @shiringhaffary Shirin Ghaffary on x

  OpenAI's VP of Global Affairs Chris Lehane posting in support of Gov Newsom's SB 1047 veto

• @bindureddy Bindu Reddy on x

  CA came pretty close to being Europe and having onerous regulation if not for one person. The war is far from over yet! Incumbents have been very aggressive at lobbying at the federal level Next Up - Rescind the Biden AI executive order

• @martin_casado @martin_casado on x

  Unbelievably grateful to @GavinNewsom for doing the right thing for California and vetoing SB 1047. This is the path to sensible AI policy and maintaining California's global leadership in AI. Thank you to every who worked tirelessly to shed light on the perils of SB 1047. Many

• @jackclarksf Jack Clark on x

  While the final version of SB 1047 was not perfect, it was a promising first step towards mitigating potentially severe and far reaching risks associated with AI development.

• @adamkovac Adam Kovacevich on x

  Governor Newsom vetoes SB 1047, @Scott_Wiener's AI regulatory bill 🎉 “California is home to 32 of the world's 50 leading Al companies...I do not believe this is the best approach to protecting the public from real threats posed by the technology.” [image]

• @ylecun Yann LeCun on x

  Thank you Governor @GavinNewsom for vetoing SB-1047. The open source AI community as grateful for your sensible decision. https://www.latimes.com/...

• @kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x

  one can imagine the party a16z is set to have after this news

• @reidhoffman Reid Hoffman on x

  Appreciate @GavinNewsom for his leadership in recognizing that SB 1047, as written, would have slowed innovation, learning, and progress toward safe AI by imposing a vague and preemptive regulatory regime on AI developers worldwide, including many California-based companies.

• @krishnanrohit Rohit on x

  Phew...! [image]

• @stanfordhai @stanfordhai on x

  HAI is honored to play a continued partnership with @CAgovernor, @BerkeleyDataSci, and Tino Cuellar to ensure CA is not only a place where AI innovation and safety flourish, but also leads on human-centered AI. https://www.gov.ca.gov/...

• @binarybits Timothy B. Lee on x

  A lot of disagreements over AI regulation seems to flow from whether people expect AI systems to continue to be tools or whether they expect them to become more person-like over time.

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  Good luck, humanity.

• @ednewtonrex Ed Newton-Rex on x

  Newsom vetoing SB1047 is terrible news for global AI safety regulation. It shows how hard it's going to be for politicians to stand up to wealthy AI corporate interests, even when the public overwhelmingly supports regulation.

• @jeremyphoward Jeremy Howard on x

  This comment from Gavin Newsom on vetoing SB 1047, the AI “safety” bill, is absolutely spot on. I hope a diverse group of folks will now work together to help create less risky and more effective regulations. [image]

• @martin_casado @martin_casado on x

  Amazing to see a partnership between Stanford, Berkeley and the state shape up to focus on AI safety and policy. This is where policy efforts should come from. Bravo!!

• @boazbaraktcs Boaz Barak on x

  Great selection of @drfeifei , @jenniferchayes and Tino Cuéllar for advice on regulations for safe and responsible generative AI.

• @hamandcheese Samuel Hammond on x

  Instead of focusing on frontier models where the risk is greatest, Newsom wants a bill that covers *all* AI models, big and small. Opponents of SB1047 will regret not accepting the narrow approach when they had the chance. This is what “safety isn't a model property” gets you. [i…

• @mikeknoop Mike Knoop on x

  Glad to see SB 1047 officially veto'd by @GavinNewsom. We must keep incentivizing AI innovation, not putting speed bumps on last-gen tech. This was under-discussed, but frontier models like OpenAI o1 showed 1047's approach was out of date before it even got decided. Based on [ima…

• @ronconway Ron Conway on x

  Thank you @GavinNewsom for vetoing the well-intentioned but flawed SB 1047. I look forward to working with the Governor and the Legislature to ensure California continues to lead the world in creating a responsible and safe AI regulatory framework.

• @quanquangu Quanquan Gu on x

  SB 1047 has been vetoed in California by @GavinNewsom—Thank you! This is a huge relief and a win for the future of tech innovation in the state. [image]

• @aaschapiro Avi Asher-Schapiro on x

  I did not follow SB 1047 super closely. But, it sure seems notable that in a state where the Dems have complete control, they were still unable to enact an AI safety bill, despite a long deliberative process which even got some industry people onside.

• @clementdelangue Clem on x

  This was a bad bill for the ecosystem & science in general so happy to see it vetoed by @GavinNewsom. Just like in software, we need to regulate the final applications & foster more open science & open-source to fight concentration of power!

• @noahpinion Noah Smith on x

  This bill was half-baked. Gavin comes through as the sensible guy once again.

• @russellwald Russell Wald on x

  Human-centered AI will thrive when we use empirically driven research to inform our policymaking. @StanfordHAI is pleased to play a leading role in partnership w/the CA Gov to ensure academia has a seat at the table in AI development.

• @tunguz Bojan Tunguz on x

  I'm gonna name my firstborn AGI Gavin.

• @kelseytuoc Kelsey Piper on x

  Is there one single person in the state of California who believes that this is Newsom's real reason for the veto - SB 1047 isn't comprehensive enough! (from WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/...) [image]

• @andrewyng Andrew Ng on x

  @drfeifei ... Thank you @drfeifei for your speaking out against SB-1047, and also for working toward a more rational approach to AI policy that protects research and innovation. It has been fantastic seeing you step into the fray and so effectively influence things for the better…

• @andrewyng Andrew Ng on x

  Thank you Governor @GavinNewsom for vetoing SB-1047 — your pro-innovation leadership is much appreciated! And to the many people who've been pushing back on SB-1047, a huge thank you as well. Congratulations to all — we won! 🎉 Looking ahead, lets keep on protecting AI

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  Narrator: and Governor Newsom said, “ok, fine, if you people with the big bucks say so”

• @thezvi Zvi Mowshowitz on x

  Everyone talking now about how wise Newsom was to veto SB 1047 and how we instead need to follow his path of targeting when people use AI for particular purposes? Remember this day, for you will rue it.

• @anjneymidha Anjney Midha on x

  Thank you @gavinnewsom for vetoing SB1047. This is true leadership, and a big win for Little Tech We're energized by the discussion on AI safety policy and hosting blueprint sessions with legislators starting this month. Our goal is to bring together all views to shape future [im…

• @soumithchintala Soumith Chintala on x

  Lifecycle of SB1047: * First-draft written by a niche special-interest stakeholder * Draft publicly socialized too quickly before other stakeholders can weigh-in privately. * Public socialization starts a political gridlock — people have to take sides and double-down, anything

• @binarybits Timothy B. Lee on x

  I liked governor newsom's 1047 veto message. Regulation of ai should focus on concrete harms from specific applications. Requiring that ai models be generally safe makes no more sense than requiring computer chips or electric motors to be safe. https://www.gov.ca.gov/... [image]

• @pmarca Marc Andreessen on x

  Thank you @gavinnewsom for vetoing SB1047 — for siding with California Dynamism, economic growth, and freedom to compute, over safetyism, doomerism, and decline. 💪🚀✨

• @bryanrwalsh Bryan Walsh on x

  California Gov. Gavin Newsom's veto of SB 1047 represents a setback for AI safety and for safety overall, as new models get better and better https://www.vox.com/...

• @kimmaicutler Kim-Mai Cutler on x

  Newsom's political star first rose in SF during the first dot-com boom and he understands the role that tech plays in financing the state's volatile budget. He terms out in 2026 and I'm not confident any of the leading gubernatorial prospects understand this as deeply.

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  Good news. Congrats to all those that worked so hard to inform officials and the public on this poorly drafted bill. [image]

• @timsweeneyepic Tim Sweeney on x

  A great display of principled tech leadership, saving computing freedom from state control and regulatory capture. There is a Sant/acc Claus!

• @markruffalo Mark Ruffalo on x

  Despite widespread support from AI creators, the public, labor unions, and most Californians, Governor @GavinNewsom decided to veto #SB1047. Like it or not, Newsom's explanation echoes the influence fossil fuel industries have had over politicians in the past, or the chemical

• @andrewyng Andrew Ng on x

  @ylecun @GavinNewsom Thank you @ylecun for your consistently clear and thoughtful explanations for why SB-1047 was a bad idea. We are lucky to have you as such a strong champion for open-source and AI innovation!

• @michaeltrazzi Michaël Trazzi on x

  my summary of the SB-1047 saga [image]

• @haydnbelfield Haydn Belfield on x

  Governor Newsom's personal decision to make California irrelevant on frontier AI regulation for at least the next year means that the responsibility is now on the UK (and EU Code of Practice) to demonstrate measured, sensible and effective frontier AI regulation

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