This law is just so vague, it provides an opening for Lina Khan types to sue any California AI company for anything. The fundamental idea that California should start adding new restrictions because we have a great tech industry here is a bad idea. There are enough stupid restrictions placed by the Europeans without every other jurisdiction also getting into it.
Counterpoint: it would be good if we could prevent California from building a machine god that exterminates humanity.
And if you think that can't happen, well, the law bans harm, not a chance of harm. So just go ahead and prove it's reasonably impossible. I don't think that's too much to ask.
What is curious is to think California can prevent someone from building a machine god. I would like to see even the short list of what California does well. I have lived here for 40 years and I am still looking.
Pretty fly for a pro-housing guy, and as you say, remarkably tame for a Made in California law. I'll be sad when Mr. Wiener isn't my Congresscritter anymore. Score one qualified point in The Quest for Sane Regulations? Still worried overall about x-risk, but relaxing slightly more over time on the mundane-utility front...we should be able to eat most of that cake, at least, if things continue in this regulatory vein. (And depending where the NYT suit goes.)
This law is just so vague, it provides an opening for Lina Khan types to sue any California AI company for anything. The fundamental idea that California should start adding new restrictions because we have a great tech industry here is a bad idea. There are enough stupid restrictions placed by the Europeans without every other jurisdiction also getting into it.
Does it though?
Counterpoint: it would be good if we could prevent California from building a machine god that exterminates humanity.
And if you think that can't happen, well, the law bans harm, not a chance of harm. So just go ahead and prove it's reasonably impossible. I don't think that's too much to ask.
What is curious is to think California can prevent someone from building a machine god. I would like to see even the short list of what California does well. I have lived here for 40 years and I am still looking.
Does this bill really not include anything about "racism" and "bias"? I think that's what we should be most grateful for.
Ctrl-F to your heart's content. Obviously they can issue guidelines later that consider such issues, but for now nope.
Pretty fly for a pro-housing guy, and as you say, remarkably tame for a Made in California law. I'll be sad when Mr. Wiener isn't my Congresscritter anymore. Score one qualified point in The Quest for Sane Regulations? Still worried overall about x-risk, but relaxing slightly more over time on the mundane-utility front...we should be able to eat most of that cake, at least, if things continue in this regulatory vein. (And depending where the NYT suit goes.)
Tyler Cowen's article is not titled "California’s Effort to Strange AI" but to Strang*l*e it.