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But what does a person who once committed those kinds of offenses think about the measure?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nearly 90% of young infants who had to be hospitalized for COVID had mothers who didn’t get the vaccine while they were pregnant, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/27/g-s1-25069/getting-the-covid-vaccine-during-pregnancy-protects-newborns-from-hospitalization\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">according to new data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the CDC. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://today.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/USC-CSU-California-Elections-and-Policy-Polls-8-US-House-Districts-Sept-14-21-2024-FINAL-09242024-release.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">new poll\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> finds a majority of California voters support two bond measures on the November ballot. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Governor Gavin Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/new-california-laws-2024/\">until the end of Monday\u003c/a> to either sign into law or veto bills that were passed by the state legislature before September 1.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Proposition 36 Sparks Concerns From Former Offender\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Should California \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/proposition-36\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">roll back past reforms\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and make it easier to charge people with felony crimes and send them to jail or prison if they repeatedly shoplift, or possess some drugs, including fentanyl and methamphetamine?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/36/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proposition 36\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> would roll back parts of a 2014 ballot measure (Proposition 47) which reclassified certain petty theft and drug possession crimes as misdemeanors instead of felonies. 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"content": "\u003cp>In an 11th hour decision, Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill widely seen as one of the most ambitious efforts to regulate the generative AI industry. SB 1047 was one of hundreds of bills floated around the country in the absence of meaningful action from Congress to address potentially catastrophic impacts of the software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 would have required developers to submit their safety plans to the state attorney general, who could hold them liable if AI models they directly control were to cause harm or imminent threats to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The harms at issue in SB 1047 are harms that people are trying to perpetrate today,” state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) told KQED. “The question is, are we going to allow large AI models to make it even easier and smoother for people to do things like shut down the electric grid or build a chemical weapon? It’s not science fiction at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25178071/sb-1047-veto-message.pdf\">veto message\u003c/a> on the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047\">Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act\u003c/a>, Newsom made it clear that he’s not averse to regulating AI companies, noting that he’s already approved more than a dozen bills around specific risks of harm to democracy, online privacy, and critical infrastructure. But he criticized SB 1047’s limited focus on the most expensive and large-scale models, saying it “establishes a regulatory framework that could give the public a false sense of security about controlling this fast-moving technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener spent the last year in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000892/ai-safety-testing-bill-heads-for-a-floor-vote-in-sacramento-taking-heavy-fire-from-silicon-valley\">pitched battle\u003c/a> with some of the most prominent figures in the AI industry, including many who warned the measure could stifle the growth of the technology in California. Wiener said he amended the measure to reflect counsel from leaders in the AI space, including safety groups, academics, startups and developers like Amazon-backed Anthropic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, tweeted Sunday that, “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.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jackclarkSF/status/1840509202352984550\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener eliminated text that would have allowed California’s attorney general to sue AI companies for negligent safety practices before a catastrophic event has occurred, along with plans to establish a division within the California Department of Technology that would have provided oversight and enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to the original language of the bill, what landed on the governor’s desk was substantially weaker, according to Gary Marcus, a scientist, entrepreneur and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Silicon-Valley-Ensure-Works/dp/0262551063/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3A88EX2BVWA8H&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.F31swn2jM8u95GwAae9mH9FtgLBwUwaWK0GYU8T73IeQzBQQZgNmHvqkTzpmOdLL3Cl3xGckiQPC0QdJAKKOYoriPQEYkLaDfuMKFNOAOAYq85KJ5JOQU8s7XYTGk5qGUWMGp2mOorCYamVYxtwjzw.F1IisiErR1kWYZw0nuDn_CLFRvoRFMUlti7pxm2y61Q&dib_tag=se&keywords=Taming+Silicon+Valley&qid=1727652464&sprefix=taming+silicon+valley%2Caps%2C145&sr=8-1\">Taming Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, a book highly critical of generative AI. “The bill was watered down,” Marcus said, adding he feels its value was primarily symbolic, and that Newsom’s decision signaled to Silicon Valley that it can “cause enormous chaos, and probably nobody’s going to make them fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with other measures before Newsom, the governor had a month to consider whether to sign SB 1047 or veto it, and during that time, his office was lobbied heavily by industry insiders on both sides, as well as local \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002254/california-bill-to-regulate-catastrophic-effects-of-ai-heads-to-newsoms-desk\">congressional representatives\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-09-24/mark-hamill-jane-fonda-joseph-gordon-levitt-sign-letter-in-support-of-ai-safety-bill-sb-1047\">Hollywood celebrities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have the technical capacity to perfectly predict how [SB 1047] would have affected the AI industry,” said Thad Kousser, a political science professor at UC San Diego. “Many people in Sacramento don’t have that ability. Maybe they just decided to err on the side of caution, thinking, ‘Wow, there’s so many industry voices saying this particular bill is dangerous and could have a chilling effect.’ Not really knowing 100%, maybe the safer step is just vetoing,” Kousser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said the governor’s office did not engage with his office as the bill made its way through the state Assembly and Senate. “I personally met with some of the most vocal opponents of the bill, with the Andreessen Horowitz firm, with several of the Stanford professors who were opposing the bill, with the large tech companies that were opposing the bill. I also met with individuals and businesses that had constructive criticism of the bill. And we made significant changes to the bill in response to those constructive critiques.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those changes were not enough for many critics, including Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren of San José, who wrote, “Any AI risk framework should be based on empirical data and fit for purpose. I also believe this is an issue that should be handled at the federal level. Congress and the Administration are both moving on AI governance. I look forward to working with the Governor as we move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren is the ranking member of the \u003ca href=\"https://science.house.gov/committee-members\">House Science, Space and Technology Committee\u003c/a>, which has in recent weeks moved nine bills forward, but all \u003ca href=\"https://www.dlapiper.com/en-us/insights/publications/ai-outlook/2024/ai-legislation-advances-in-us-house-of-representatives\">face an uncertain future\u003c/a> in the House of Representatives. Nothing addressing the scope and scale of SB 1047 has passed out of any committee. But Lina Khan of the Federal Trade Commission has said that federal regulators are keen to use \u003ca href=\"http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/remarks-of-chair-lina-m-khan-re-joint-interagency-statement-on-ai.pdf\">existing laws (PDF)\u003c/a> to go after bad behavior in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987803/how-california-and-the-eu-work-together-to-regulate-artificial-intelligence\">European Union\u003c/a> and Colorado, both of which passed comprehensive laws, California lawmakers have largely focused on discrete bills addressing specific issues with generative AI. Gov. Newsom signed 17 of these bills this year, as he noted in his veto message, and California is among a host of states taking steps to regulate generative AI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the inertia in Washington, D.C., most political analysts see the state level as the only hope for aggressive regulation of technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the race for the White House this year, both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have sought the support of Silicon Valley’s most powerful players. Newsom’s presidential ambitions are presumably on hold for the foreseeable future, but given the national profile of SB 1047, some have wondered if he might be loath to make enemies among those profiting from the rise of generative artificial intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think, like any good politician who’s ascended to the heights Gavin Newsom has, you’ve got to be thinking about ‘How will I be judged today, tomorrow, in 5 or 10 years,” said Professor Kousser. “That forward thinking has guided his decisions on many bills throughout his governorship. He’s been on the right side of history in many of the strong policy stands he has taken, as mayor and as governor — and he’s hoping that he’ll be on the right side of history on this one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry critics like Marcus argue something much more cynical: that the biggest of the big Silicon Valley companies have become so wealthy and powerful that few U.S. politicians appear willing to go up against them. “Existing laws didn’t anticipate the AI era, and so there are lots of gaps in those laws. We don’t really have clarity about what to do about copyright. We don’t have clarity about what to do with machines when they go out of control in some way.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Wiener eliminated text that would have allowed California’s attorney general to sue AI companies for negligent safety practices before a catastrophic event has occurred, along with plans to establish a division within the California Department of Technology that would have provided oversight and enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to the original language of the bill, what landed on the governor’s desk was substantially weaker, according to Gary Marcus, a scientist, entrepreneur and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Silicon-Valley-Ensure-Works/dp/0262551063/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3A88EX2BVWA8H&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.F31swn2jM8u95GwAae9mH9FtgLBwUwaWK0GYU8T73IeQzBQQZgNmHvqkTzpmOdLL3Cl3xGckiQPC0QdJAKKOYoriPQEYkLaDfuMKFNOAOAYq85KJ5JOQU8s7XYTGk5qGUWMGp2mOorCYamVYxtwjzw.F1IisiErR1kWYZw0nuDn_CLFRvoRFMUlti7pxm2y61Q&dib_tag=se&keywords=Taming+Silicon+Valley&qid=1727652464&sprefix=taming+silicon+valley%2Caps%2C145&sr=8-1\">Taming Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, a book highly critical of generative AI. “The bill was watered down,” Marcus said, adding he feels its value was primarily symbolic, and that Newsom’s decision signaled to Silicon Valley that it can “cause enormous chaos, and probably nobody’s going to make them fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with other measures before Newsom, the governor had a month to consider whether to sign SB 1047 or veto it, and during that time, his office was lobbied heavily by industry insiders on both sides, as well as local \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002254/california-bill-to-regulate-catastrophic-effects-of-ai-heads-to-newsoms-desk\">congressional representatives\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-09-24/mark-hamill-jane-fonda-joseph-gordon-levitt-sign-letter-in-support-of-ai-safety-bill-sb-1047\">Hollywood celebrities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have the technical capacity to perfectly predict how [SB 1047] would have affected the AI industry,” said Thad Kousser, a political science professor at UC San Diego. “Many people in Sacramento don’t have that ability. Maybe they just decided to err on the side of caution, thinking, ‘Wow, there’s so many industry voices saying this particular bill is dangerous and could have a chilling effect.’ Not really knowing 100%, maybe the safer step is just vetoing,” Kousser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said the governor’s office did not engage with his office as the bill made its way through the state Assembly and Senate. “I personally met with some of the most vocal opponents of the bill, with the Andreessen Horowitz firm, with several of the Stanford professors who were opposing the bill, with the large tech companies that were opposing the bill. I also met with individuals and businesses that had constructive criticism of the bill. And we made significant changes to the bill in response to those constructive critiques.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those changes were not enough for many critics, including Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren of San José, who wrote, “Any AI risk framework should be based on empirical data and fit for purpose. I also believe this is an issue that should be handled at the federal level. Congress and the Administration are both moving on AI governance. I look forward to working with the Governor as we move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren is the ranking member of the \u003ca href=\"https://science.house.gov/committee-members\">House Science, Space and Technology Committee\u003c/a>, which has in recent weeks moved nine bills forward, but all \u003ca href=\"https://www.dlapiper.com/en-us/insights/publications/ai-outlook/2024/ai-legislation-advances-in-us-house-of-representatives\">face an uncertain future\u003c/a> in the House of Representatives. Nothing addressing the scope and scale of SB 1047 has passed out of any committee. But Lina Khan of the Federal Trade Commission has said that federal regulators are keen to use \u003ca href=\"http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/remarks-of-chair-lina-m-khan-re-joint-interagency-statement-on-ai.pdf\">existing laws (PDF)\u003c/a> to go after bad behavior in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987803/how-california-and-the-eu-work-together-to-regulate-artificial-intelligence\">European Union\u003c/a> and Colorado, both of which passed comprehensive laws, California lawmakers have largely focused on discrete bills addressing specific issues with generative AI. Gov. Newsom signed 17 of these bills this year, as he noted in his veto message, and California is among a host of states taking steps to regulate generative AI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the inertia in Washington, D.C., most political analysts see the state level as the only hope for aggressive regulation of technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the race for the White House this year, both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have sought the support of Silicon Valley’s most powerful players. Newsom’s presidential ambitions are presumably on hold for the foreseeable future, but given the national profile of SB 1047, some have wondered if he might be loath to make enemies among those profiting from the rise of generative artificial intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think, like any good politician who’s ascended to the heights Gavin Newsom has, you’ve got to be thinking about ‘How will I be judged today, tomorrow, in 5 or 10 years,” said Professor Kousser. “That forward thinking has guided his decisions on many bills throughout his governorship. He’s been on the right side of history in many of the strong policy stands he has taken, as mayor and as governor — and he’s hoping that he’ll be on the right side of history on this one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:30 p.m. Sunday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a landmark bill aimed at establishing first-in-the-nation \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-ai-regulation-bill-vote-cf581ef29fe47df8ce2ae3b979e07f73\">safety measures\u003c/a> for large artificial intelligence models Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision is a major blow to efforts attempting to rein in the homegrown industry that is rapidly evolving with little oversight. The bill would have established some of the first regulations on large-scale AI models in the nation and paved the way for AI safety regulations across the country, supporters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Democratic governor told an audience at Dreamforce, an annual conference hosted by software giant Salesforce, that California must lead in regulating AI in the face of federal inaction but that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-meta-google-ai-regulation-fight-e3a9c25b597b5f469fe0de149572f87e\">the proposal\u003c/a> “can have a chilling effect on the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, which drew fierce opposition from startups, tech giants and several Democratic House members, could have hurt the homegrown industry by establishing rigid requirements, Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While well-intentioned, SB 1047 does not take into account whether an AI system is deployed in high-risk environments, involves critical decision-making or the use of sensitive data,” Newsom said in a statement. “Instead, the bill applies stringent standards to even the most basic functions — so long as a large system deploys it. I do not believe this is the best approach to protecting the public from real threats posed by the technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom on Sunday instead announced that the state will partner with several industry experts, including AI pioneer \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ai-pioneer-feifei-li-stanford-computer-vision-imagenet-702717c10defd89feabf01e6c1566a4b\">Fei-Fei Li\u003c/a>, to develop guardrails around powerful AI models. Li opposed the AI safety proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of SB 1047, state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, told KQED Sunday said it was a major missed opportunity for California to lead on tech regulation and on AI safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cb>\u003c/b>This bill was meticulously put together. We worked with some of the most brilliant AI experts in the world. We worked with technology companies. We we worked with a huge coalition on this bill and it deserved to be signed,” Wiener said. “The governor obviously disagreed, and it’s a missed opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, aimed at reducing potential risks created by AI, would have required companies to test their models and publicly disclose their safety protocols to prevent the models from being manipulated to, for example, wipe out the state’s electric grid or help build chemical weapons. Experts say those scenarios could be possible in the future as the industry continues to rapidly advance. It also would have provided whistleblower protections to workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation is among \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-ai-election-deepfakes-safety-regulations-eb6bbc80e346744dbb250f931ebca9f3\">a host of bills\u003c/a> passed by the Legislature this year to regulate AI, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-artificial-intelligence-deepfakes-election-0e70cb32b06d9187eaef5bdacaba6d77\">fight deepfakes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-hollywood-actors-ai-protections-artificial-intelligence-d3d53135ee76849c2da1388efcfc8975\">protect workers\u003c/a>. State lawmakers said California must take actions this year, citing hard lessons they learned from failing to rein in social media companies when they might have had a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of the measure, including Elon Musk and Anthropic, said the proposal could have injected some levels of transparency and accountability around large-scale AI models, as developers and experts say they still don’t have a full understanding of how AI models behave and why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill targeted systems that require \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/measuring-ai-safety-risk-flops-california-1047-6d556799683b02aa192b821462422aa2\">more than $100 million\u003c/a> to build. No current AI models have hit that threshold, but some experts said that could change within the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is because of the massive investment scale-up within the industry,” said Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI researcher who resigned in April over what he saw as the company’s disregard for AI risks. “This is a crazy amount of power to have any private company control unaccountably, and it’s also incredibly risky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United States is already behind \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/european-union-artificial-intelligence-8ed875df104fbc254b3dd09f348255e8\">Europe in regulating AI\u003c/a> to limit risks. The California proposal wasn’t as comprehensive as regulations in Europe, but it would have been a good first step to set guardrails around the rapidly growing technology that is raising concerns about job loss, misinformation, invasions of privacy and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-explained-policy-technology-regulations-discrimination-d3226c9139d3d06af263e7ff467d0666\">automation bias\u003c/a>, supporters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of leading AI companies last year \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-safeguards-joe-biden-kamala-harris-4caf02b94275429f764b06840897436c\">voluntarily agreed\u003c/a> to follow safeguards set by the White House, such as testing and sharing information about their models. The California bill would have mandated AI developers to follow requirements similar to those commitments, said the measure’s supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12002254,news_12003542,forum_2010101906887,news_12005269\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics, including former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, argued that the bill would “kill California tech” and stifle innovation. It would have discouraged AI developers from investing in large models or sharing open-source software, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s decision to veto the bill marks another win in California for big tech companies and AI developers, many of whom spent the past year lobbying alongside the California Chamber of Commerce to sway the governor and lawmakers from advancing AI regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other sweeping AI proposals, which also faced mounting opposition from the tech industry and others, died ahead of a legislative deadline last month. The bills would have required AI developers to label AI-generated content and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-bias-discrimination-regulation-ai-ff1d0860663723079aac3666b38f2320\">ban discrimination from AI tools\u003c/a> used to make employment decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said earlier this summer he wanted to protect California’s status as a global leader in AI, noting that 32 of the world’s top 50 AI companies are located in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has promoted California as an early adopter as the state \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-ai-generative-artificial-intelligence-contracts-c178a60b679193ca03168d053f3b811b\">could soon deploy generative AI tools\u003c/a> to address highway congestion, provide tax guidance and streamline homelessness programs. The state also announced last month \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/nvidia-artificial-intelligence-ai-california-0958f43b6aecbdb7617dfcb78bad7319\">a voluntary partnership\u003c/a> with AI giant Nvidia to help train students, college faculty, developers and data scientists. California is also considering new rules against AI discrimination in hiring practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Newsom signed some of the toughest laws in the country to crack down on \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-artificial-intelligence-deepfakes-election-0e70cb32b06d9187eaef5bdacaba6d77\">election deepfakes\u003c/a> and measures to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-hollywood-actors-ai-protections-artificial-intelligence-d3d53135ee76849c2da1388efcfc8975\">protect Hollywood workers\u003c/a> from unauthorized AI use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with Newsom’s veto, the California safety proposal is inspiring lawmakers in other states to take up similar measures, said Tatiana Rice, deputy director of the Future of Privacy Forum, a nonprofit that works with lawmakers on technology and privacy proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are going to potentially either copy it or do something similar next legislative session,” Rice said. “So it’s not going away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Nik Altenberg contributed reporting to this story. The Associated Press and OpenAI have \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/openai-chatgpt-associated-press-ap-f86f84c5bcc2f3b98074b38521f5f75a\">a licensing and technology agreement\u003c/a> that allows OpenAI access to part of AP’s text archives.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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I do not believe this is the best approach to protecting the public from real threats posed by the technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom on Sunday instead announced that the state will partner with several industry experts, including AI pioneer \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ai-pioneer-feifei-li-stanford-computer-vision-imagenet-702717c10defd89feabf01e6c1566a4b\">Fei-Fei Li\u003c/a>, to develop guardrails around powerful AI models. Li opposed the AI safety proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of SB 1047, state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, told KQED Sunday said it was a major missed opportunity for California to lead on tech regulation and on AI safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cb>\u003c/b>This bill was meticulously put together. We worked with some of the most brilliant AI experts in the world. We worked with technology companies. 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It also would have provided whistleblower protections to workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation is among \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-ai-election-deepfakes-safety-regulations-eb6bbc80e346744dbb250f931ebca9f3\">a host of bills\u003c/a> passed by the Legislature this year to regulate AI, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-artificial-intelligence-deepfakes-election-0e70cb32b06d9187eaef5bdacaba6d77\">fight deepfakes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-hollywood-actors-ai-protections-artificial-intelligence-d3d53135ee76849c2da1388efcfc8975\">protect workers\u003c/a>. State lawmakers said California must take actions this year, citing hard lessons they learned from failing to rein in social media companies when they might have had a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of the measure, including Elon Musk and Anthropic, said the proposal could have injected some levels of transparency and accountability around large-scale AI models, as developers and experts say they still don’t have a full understanding of how AI models behave and why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill targeted systems that require \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/measuring-ai-safety-risk-flops-california-1047-6d556799683b02aa192b821462422aa2\">more than $100 million\u003c/a> to build. No current AI models have hit that threshold, but some experts said that could change within the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is because of the massive investment scale-up within the industry,” said Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI researcher who resigned in April over what he saw as the company’s disregard for AI risks. “This is a crazy amount of power to have any private company control unaccountably, and it’s also incredibly risky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United States is already behind \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/european-union-artificial-intelligence-8ed875df104fbc254b3dd09f348255e8\">Europe in regulating AI\u003c/a> to limit risks. 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However, the research also finds that when schools and parents engage with children and educate them about the benefits and risks of AI, those children take note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/the-dawn-of-the-ai-era-teens-parents-and-the-adoption-of-generative-ai-at-home-and-school\">The Dawn of the AI Era: Teens, Parents, and the Adoption of Generative AI at Home and School\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, is based on a nationwide survey conducted from March to May of 1,045 adults who are parents or guardians of one or more teens aged 13 to 18, as well as responses from 1,045 teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really wanted to first start with the landscape, which is, what are adolescents doing? 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But we need to talk about this.”\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12005293\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/2024-the-dawn-of-the-ai-era_chart-pg-7-horizontal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/2024-the-dawn-of-the-ai-era_chart-pg-7-horizontal.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/2024-the-dawn-of-the-ai-era_chart-pg-7-horizontal-800x410.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/2024-the-dawn-of-the-ai-era_chart-pg-7-horizontal-1020x522.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/2024-the-dawn-of-the-ai-era_chart-pg-7-horizontal-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/2024-the-dawn-of-the-ai-era_chart-pg-7-horizontal-1536x786.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/2024-the-dawn-of-the-ai-era_chart-pg-7-horizontal-1920x983.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">In response to the Common Sense Media study, teacher Melissa Donnelly-Gowdy, who is currently at River City High School in West Sacramento, wrote KQED that she may be referencing it during her English 11 rhetoric unit next term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I use AI everyday — mainly ChatGPT or Google Search AI in class with students and to prepare lesson plans, differentiate instruction, or get sample writing based on my assignments,” wrote Donnelly-Gowdy, who has been teaching for more than 15 years. “I want students to use AI because it’s not going away, but I also want them to grow in their integrity and critical thinking skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly-Gowdy said earlier this week students could use ChatGPT if they wanted or needed to in a hybrid assignment for a Modern Barbie Doll Pitch. She said most of the students used AI, but that a few “more storyteller-inclined” students created their own stories. She explained to them this was one example of how AI could be used as a tool and a starting point for assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing concerns about AI being used to cheat, Donnelly-Gowdy said, “I have graded AI work and passed it through because I couldn’t find a way to prove it, but for the most part AI work is easy for me to identify. Students are going to use it to cheat, just like they have been using other things to cheat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"mindshift_64014,arts_13819045,forum_2010101893064\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who did have guidance reported that they approached AI tools with more skepticism. \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Fifty-five percent of the teens who reported they talked about AI’s benefits and pitfalls in school fact-checked the information they received because they learned about generative AI’s tendency to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/64532/researchers-combat-ai-hallucinations-in-math\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hallucinate\u003c/a>” or deliver inaccurate or biased information.\u003c/span> That compares with 43% of teens who had not discussed AI’s strengths and weaknesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another pair of surprising insights: Black students are substantially more likely than their white or Latinx peers to have their writing incorrectly flagged as the work of AI, but parents of Black teens are also more optimistic about the potential for generative AI to soften systemic inequalities in education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black teens were \u003cem>more than twice as likely\u003c/em> as white or Latino teens to say that teachers flagged their schoolwork as being created by generative AI when it was not (20% vs. 7% and 10%), according to the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this clear indicator of bias, “A larger percentage of Black parents are more likely to say, ‘I think this is going to help my child with skill acquisition. 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On Friday, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.archivalproducersalliance.com/\">Archival Producers Alliance\u003c/a> is releasing a set of “best practices” to keep generative AI from destroying the integrity and authenticity of documentaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collective of more than 400 people from 25 countries specializes in archives. Many of them help filmmakers put together stories, and some are documentary filmmakers themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alliance co-director Rachel Antell of Berkeley said she hopes the new, voluntary guidelines will get Hollywood and Silicon Valley talking in a serious way about the integrity of history that belongs to all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The two things we always struggle with are not enough money and not enough time, and especially not enough money. AI comes in and seemingly offers solutions to both those existential issues, but really, it doesn’t. I think the question that we always need to be asking is ‘At what cost?’” said Antell, who has worked in documentary film for about 25 years, producing work that’s run on HBO, Netflix and Hulu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antell and others in the Alliance say they already see documentaries using AI-generated voices of dead people, often to read something they wrote but never recorded. 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However, a number of people in the industry cringed when OpenAI introduced its video generation model Sora with clips, including “Historical Footage” of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luFoA1Qg5qw\">California Gold Rush Era town\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It looks like a blurry, color drone shot of a Hollywood set for a Western town, inexplicably free of women and children, or any non-white people, sitting alongside a brook free of garbage and gold mining pollution common in the mid-19th century. Such a clip might add a vaguely evocative touch to a documentary, but this AI-generated vision veers quite far from what an actual California Gold Rush town would look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some things that are legal are not necessarily ethical,” said Alliance Co-Director Stephanie Jenkins, a documentary and archival producer in Hudson, New York, who’s primarily worked on historical documentaries for PBS, as well as the New York Times series Op-Docs and WNYC’s Radiolab. “Some things that are ethical aren’t necessarily legal. Part of our work is educating documentary filmmakers about where those lines are currently and how they may change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidelines are not concerned with minor alterations, like retouching, restoration, or playing with the resolution of individual items. Rather, the Alliance is concerned with alterations that could “mislead the audience” and introduce noise into the historical record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alliance is also concerned with the potential for a massive data grab, similar to what’s happening to the field of journalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of what archives have is not digitally accessible,” Antell said, noting that companies developing the large language models are “going to the archives and saying, ‘We’ll digitize your material for free in exchange for being able to scrape it.’ It’s an immediate gain for the archives, which are mainly small and struggling for their survival. But it’s very shortsighted. It’s a Faustian bargain. Their metadata, that’s much more valuable than the actual material, and so, their long-term ability to survive is really compromised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='ai']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are less concerned about generative AI’s incursion into archival materials. “I’ve found that sometimes, the gatekeepers of archival collections protect their domain of archival material so tightly that they forget that the goal is the public \u003ci>see \u003c/i>the footage or images, that it is re-surfaced as often as possible and discussed; that it is \u003ci>accessible,” \u003c/i>Oakland producer Charlotte Buchen Khadra said. “Perhaps AI can help make various archives easier to search, for example. I’m hopeful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alliance is not calling for documentary filmmakers to stop using generative AI altogether. They say there are plenty of examples of beneficial uses, like in the HBO doc \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2KMm49B6pE\">Welcome to Chechnya\u003c/a>, which overlaid the faces of volunteers on top of people facing anti-LGBTQ persecution in Russia to protect them from identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Primarily, the Alliance guidelines beg for transparency. That message is being received with open arms by many old-timers in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My students have said it is a wonderfully economical way to deal with the expense of animation, and assuming that the prompts are accurate, which is a big if, it can be very helpful,” wrote June Cross, at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. “What troubles me about it is that people can take orphan photos or even copyrighted photos and make animation out of them, thereby stealing the work of the original creator and also making people think that this is an accurate representation…I know that a lot of people don’t give a darn about accuracy these days, but some of us still care about whether the picture shows a ‘58 or ‘64 Cadillac.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Documentary filmmakers don’t follow a single code of ethics,” wrote Stacey Woelfel, director of the Documentary Journalism Center at the Missouri School of Journalism. “So there’s no set of commandments to be handed down to tell filmmakers what they can and cannot do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that, the Alliance plans to host a series of talks, \u003ca href=\"https://pointsnorthinstitute.org/ciff/forum-pitch/\">panels\u003c/a> and workshops in the coming months to spread the word about its findings and concerns. The group also plans to develop a tool kit to provide filmmakers with things like AI crediting guidelines and a cue sheet, insider lingo for a detailed outline of everything in a program, including, in this instance, software versions, prompts used, and the like. Otherwise, Antell and Jenkins warn that public trust in documentaries will be lost forever.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Taylor Swift’s much-anticipated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13964057/taylor-swift-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president-after-debate\">endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris\u003c/a> also called out an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ai\">AI\u003c/a>-generated image of the pop superstar shared by former President Donald Trump. In doing so, she added her voice to a chorus of concerns over the technology and its potential for election-related misinformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The image \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112984762512136574\">reposted by Trump\u003c/a> last month on Truth Social, his right-wing social media platform, shows Swift posing Uncle Sam-style and saying she “wants YOU” to vote for Trump. The former president added a message: “I accept!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Tuesday’s debate, Swift expressed alarm over the doctored image in \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C_wtAOKOW1z/\">her Instagram post\u003c/a> endorsing Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recently I was made aware that AI of ‘me’ falsely endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential run was posted to his site. It really conjured up my fears around AI and the dangers of spreading misinformation,” she wrote. “It brought me to the conclusion that I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter. The simplest way to combat misinformation is with the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As much as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13963687/taylor-swift-fans-election-kamala-harris-trump-swifties\">Swift’s fans\u003c/a> were outraged by the photo — and some called on her to denounce it sooner — one AI expert says that a less partisan and provocative use of AI could pose a bigger threat to election integrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas Hansen, a co-founder of the Berkeley-based AI knowledge nonprofit CivAI, said two kinds of AI content are at play in the election: inflammatory posts, like the one of Swift, as well as a post on social media site, X from Elon Musk that shows Harris donning a red suit with a communist hammer and sickle symbol, and other content that’s aimed less at angering voters and more at affecting their behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New Hampshire, for example, some voters received robocalls ahead of the March primary election using an assumed AI-generated voice resembling that of President Joe Biden. The calls told voters to “save their vote” for the November general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12000310 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240815-CITYATTORNEYDEEPFAKES-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was discouraging people from turning out to the primary in New Hampshire, and that’s not inflammatory, but it can be substantially more effective,” Hansen said. “I think a lot of the highest impact things that we’ll see before and during the election are of that type.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To show what AI is capable of, CivAI has been modeling other ways that it could be used to impact voting in the run-up to election day. Hansen said that could look like doctored news articles that resemble real publications publicizing a fake suspected shooting near a polling place or misinformation telling voters that they can avoid paying to park at a polling place by showing up to a certain location during a very tight time frame, “close to when polls close and not a legitimate place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s more likely that voters will be tricked by this kind of AI-generated content than by deepfakes of the candidates or celebrities like Swift, according to Hansen, who expects to see production of this kind of content ramp up — especially in swing states and targeting swing voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another CivAI model shows how AI might use highly personalized content to target voters. One of its demos uses LinkedIn to find out a person’s top concerns and writes them an email about a fake, plausible-sounding tax or regulation supposedly proposed by a candidate on one of those issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansen tried it out on his sister, a freelance artist. The email to her said Biden planned to impose additional taxes on freelancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s so targeted and so specific that a lot of people just wouldn’t think that’s possible to do right now at any sort of automated level,” Hansen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Mehta Stein, the executive director of the nonpartisan watchdog group Common Cause, said that conspiracy theorists who believe election fraud is rampant could also use AI to mimic the sophisticated systems that elections officials run to detect duplicate voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can use AI to mimic that work, but with none of the controls and none of the safeguards” that elections officials use, he said. “You can create hugely erroneous lists of voters that you want to challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inflammatory content is also still a concern, especially as high-performing AI tools become more accessible. About a month ago, X added a beta version of Grok 2.0 for its premium members, which is an AI image generation feature using a tool from Black Forest Labs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the first extremely easily available image generation tool that’s high quality,” Hansen told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002254 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ScottWienerAP1-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many people can detect such deepfakes, some are tougher to spot, he said — like one photo posted on X of Trump giving a thumbs up, surrounded by people wearing shirts that say “Walz’s for Trump.” It was captioned, “The *entire* Tim Walz Family just endorsed Donald J. TRUMP for President 2024!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/walz-family-nebraska-trump-elelction-2f2e29586b0e9ebe094ff2cf546e1ae4\">\u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/a> confirmed that some distant cousins of the Democratic vice presidential nominee did pose for a separate photo in Trump shirts, the image that showed Trump surrounded by supposed Walz relatives was AI-generated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansen said that even as someone with a lot of experience detecting deepfake images, this one didn’t have any of the normal “tells,” like messed up hands or background blurring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he said these images are often debunked and mostly sow division, he “expect[s] that we’ll see a large increase in the volume of those sorts of debates as a result of how accessible Grok is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein said the most significant risk could be how this content affects voters’ trust in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The danger is not that 10,000 voters will be deceived by a deepfake and change who they’re voting for,” though it’s possible, he said. “The danger is that 10 million voters who are awash in disinformation between now and Election Day throw up their hands and say, ‘Forget it, I’m not voting at all.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bigger impact of the fake photos of Swift might be her response itself — since her post pointing people to vote.gov, the site has received more than 337,000 visits as of Wednesday afternoon, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elenammoore/status/1833936170301960507?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">according to \u003cem>NPR\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047\">SB 1047\u003c/a>. “I’m really, really proud of our coalition and grateful to my colleagues for understanding that, when it comes to technology, innovation and safety are not mutually exclusive. They complement each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bill would enact safeguards to prevent AI from being used to conduct cyberattacks on critical infrastructure or develop chemical, nuclear or biological weapons. After passing the assembly and getting another stamp of approval from the senate, the bill goes to Gov. 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Even Wiener’s longtime ally, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/martin_casado/status/1828467847720509652\">open letter\u003c/a> that “more work needs to be done to bring together industry, government, and community stakeholders before moving forward with a legislative solution that doesn’t add unnecessary bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906876/nancy-pelosi-explains-the-art-of-power\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Thursday, Pelosi criticized the bill again.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“California is the home, the birthplace of AI. In our view. It has the knowledge, the technological knowledge, it has the entrepreneurship, and it has the responsibility to do the right thing, not to pass a bill that does not do the job because it is as well-intentioned as it is ill-informed.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also pushed back against the idea that she was speaking out against Wiener’s bill because he might face Pelosi’s daughter in a run for her seat once she leaves office. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They don’t know what they’re talking about,” she said about \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2024/08/19/ai-pelosi-house-seat-00174542\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which first reported the story. “I don’t want California going down a bad path on something this serious and has nothing to do with elections.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 has also attracted high-profile supporters, including Elon Musk, who on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1828205685386936567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1828205685386936567%7Ctwgr%5Eefeda0f975043ebdda2707011f803c34424e4ba0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsfstandard.com%2F2024%2F08%2F26%2Felon-musk-openai-scott-wiener-sb1046%2F\">posted on social media site X,\u003c/a> “This is a tough call and will make some people upset, but, all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill. For over 20 years, I have been an advocate for AI regulation, just as we regulate any product/technology that is a potential risk to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener acknowledged his unlikely ally. “Elon Musk is not a fan of me, and I’m not a fan of Elon Musk,” Wiener said. “But even people who have very strong disagreements can still find common ground. And, in this area, Elon and I have common ground. He has long, long been an advocate for AI safety. And so this position is very consistent with his long history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he amended the measure to reflect counsel from leaders in the AI space, including safety groups, academics, startups and developers like Amazon-backed Anthropic. The bill no longer allows California’s attorney general to sue AI companies for negligent safety practices before a catastrophic event has occurred. Also, the original text, which would have established a division within the California Department of Technology “to ensure continuous oversight and enforcement,” is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who heads the Senate Budget Committee, told KQED the changes were made in large part to improve the bill’s chances with lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom, given that California is facing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\">massive budget deficit\u003c/a>. “My experience with Gov. Newsom is he gives bills a fair shake and he listens to arguments. He speaks to people who support and people who oppose, and he makes an informed choice. And I’m confident he will do that here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 would only affect companies building AI systems that cost more than $100 million to train. However, critics argue the mere threat of legal action from the state attorney general will stifle innovation by discouraging big tech companies from sharing open-source software with smaller ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Anthropic warned in an open letter addressed to Wiener that it could not support the bill unless it was amended to “respect the evolving nature of risk reduction practices while minimizing rigid, ambiguous, or burdensome rules.” Anthropic was the first major generative AI developer to publicly signal a willingness to work with Wiener on SB 1047.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SB 1047 establishes clear, predictable, common sense legal standards for the developers of the biggest, most powerful AI systems to efficiently build in safety across the AI ecosystem startups build on,” wrote Nathan Calvin, Senior Policy Counsel at the Center for AI Safety Action Fund, the lobbying arm of the Center for AI Safety, which is one of SB 1047’s co-sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the bill, however, sounded another alarm, including Andrew Ng, the Stanford professor and former Google executive who detailed his concerns in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-252/\">post\u003c/a> viewed by more than 1 million people on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/andrewyng/status/1798753608974139779?s=61\">X\u003c/a>. “SB 1047 will stifle open source AI and hinder AI innovation,” Ng wrote KQED. “It makes a fundamental mistake of trying to regulate AI technology rather than address harmful applications. 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Even Wiener’s longtime ally, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/martin_casado/status/1828467847720509652\">open letter\u003c/a> that “more work needs to be done to bring together industry, government, and community stakeholders before moving forward with a legislative solution that doesn’t add unnecessary bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906876/nancy-pelosi-explains-the-art-of-power\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Thursday, Pelosi criticized the bill again.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“California is the home, the birthplace of AI. In our view. It has the knowledge, the technological knowledge, it has the entrepreneurship, and it has the responsibility to do the right thing, not to pass a bill that does not do the job because it is as well-intentioned as it is ill-informed.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also pushed back against the idea that she was speaking out against Wiener’s bill because he might face Pelosi’s daughter in a run for her seat once she leaves office. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They don’t know what they’re talking about,” she said about \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2024/08/19/ai-pelosi-house-seat-00174542\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which first reported the story. “I don’t want California going down a bad path on something this serious and has nothing to do with elections.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 has also attracted high-profile supporters, including Elon Musk, who on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1828205685386936567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1828205685386936567%7Ctwgr%5Eefeda0f975043ebdda2707011f803c34424e4ba0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsfstandard.com%2F2024%2F08%2F26%2Felon-musk-openai-scott-wiener-sb1046%2F\">posted on social media site X,\u003c/a> “This is a tough call and will make some people upset, but, all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill. 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Also, the original text, which would have established a division within the California Department of Technology “to ensure continuous oversight and enforcement,” is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who heads the Senate Budget Committee, told KQED the changes were made in large part to improve the bill’s chances with lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom, given that California is facing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\">massive budget deficit\u003c/a>. “My experience with Gov. Newsom is he gives bills a fair shake and he listens to arguments. He speaks to people who support and people who oppose, and he makes an informed choice. And I’m confident he will do that here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 would only affect companies building AI systems that cost more than $100 million to train. 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That allows landlords to “move in unison versus against each other,” as RealPage’s vice president of Revenue Management Advisory Services allegedly described it, according to the suit, which stifles competition and artificially inflates prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Americans should not have to pay more in rent because a company has found a new way to scheme with landlords to break the law,” Attorney General Merrick Garland \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realpage-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millions-american-renters\">said in a statement\u003c/a> on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RealPage did not respond to KQED’s request for comment, but it has \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/first-settlements-reached-realpage-rental-price-fixing-lawsuits-2024-02-05/\">denied wrongdoing\u003c/a> in other class action suits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, some 16 million renters live in properties controlled by companies that use RealPage’s software, according to RealPage’s own estimates, as detailed in the lawsuit. The suit comes as shelter costs have continued to drive up total household costs, contributing to nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm\">90% of the increase\u003c/a> last month, even as \u003ca href=\"https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_inflation_rate#:~:text=US%20Inflation%20Rate%20(I%3AUSIR)&text=US%20Inflation%20Rate%20is%20at,in%20price%20over%20a%20year.\">inflation overall has ebbed\u003c/a>, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11999481 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/020_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, corporate landlords are under pressure to lower rents nationally. Last month, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass new legislation to force landlords with 50 or more units to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/07/16/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-major-new-actions-to-lower-housing-costs-by-limiting-rent-increases-and-building-more-homes/\">cap annual rent increases at 5%\u003c/a> or risk losing certain federal tax breaks. In her first major campaign event, Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1818428966559944924\">pledged\u003c/a> to “take on corporate landlords and cap unfair rent increases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liz Zelnick, director of the Economic Security & Corporate Power Program at the consumer watchdog group, Accountable.us, said her organization \u003ca href=\"https://accountable.us/report-top-corporate-landlords-see-profits-soar-amid-rent-hikes-and-fees/\">has been investigating\u003c/a> RealPage for years after it began noticing a pattern: Corporate landlords were posting record profits while raising rents, not just in high-priced cities like Boston and San Francisco, but across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognized that it wasn’t just plain corporate greed; it was corporate greed meets price fixing,” she said. “This is really artificially raising rates across the country in different cities and towns and making it nearly impossible for tenants to find a cheaper building in the city in which they were looking because a lot of these landlords were colluding with one another, within those same cities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement on Friday that renters in Southern California are particularly impacted by companies that use RealPage. As home prices and rents rise, he said, renters have “no other choice” but to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This means that even if rental home supply was high, rent prices stayed the same, and in some cases, rents went up,” Bonta said. “This conduct is unacceptable and illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Apartment Association declined to comment on the case, citing the pending litigation. 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In a statement Friday to KQED, he lauded the federal antitrust lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once again, San Francisco is a model for the nation,” he said. “The rent’s too high, and that’s why I’m banning the corporate software that enables tenant price gouging here in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California has its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11773508/california-senate-approves-bill-to-cap-rent-increases\">own laws\u003c/a> prohibiting rental increases of more than 10% annually, Leah Simon-Weisberg, an attorney with the nonprofit California Center for Movement Legal Services, said this suit is evidence more regulation is needed. Her organization is advocating for a measure on the Berkeley ballot that would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980492/berkeley-voters-could-face-competing-tenant-protection-measures-in-november\">strengthen tenant protections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to stop pretending that there is a free market and stop pretending that a free market is going to solve anything,” she said. “We need regulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Remember when, in March of 2023, more than a thousand technology leaders and researchers warned that generative AI could pose “profound risks to society and humanity”? Two months later, some of the industry’s biggest backers promised international leaders they’d be game to build necessary safeguards. A similar pledge was made last month at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, some prominent figures in the AI industry, including many who have raised safety concerns, are dismissing those worries as science fiction as they pitch an open battle against \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047\">SB 1047\u003c/a>, a bill that would mandate safety testing for developers of the largest AI models. That measure is on the state Assembly floor for a vote after passing through the Assembly Appropriations Committee along party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of AI have warned that SB 1047 could stifle the growth of the technology in California. And they’ve rallied three Silicon Valley Congress members — Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Rep. Ro Khanna and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi — to aid their efforts to kill the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The view of many of us in Congress is that SB 1047 is well-intentioned but ill informed,” Pelosi wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-statement-opposition-california-senate-bill-1047\">open letter\u003c/a> published last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re simply requiring these labs to perform the safety testing that they have repeatedly and publicly committed to perform,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976097/california-lawmakers-take-on-ai-regulation-with-a-host-of-bills\"> introduced\u003c/a> the bill and is expected to run to fill Pelosi’s seat once she retires, possibly against her daughter Christine Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he amended the measure to reflect counsel from leaders in the AI space, including safety groups, academics, startups and developers like Amazon-backed Anthropic. A key amendment is that the bill no longer allows California’s attorney general to sue AI companies for negligent safety practices before a catastrophic event has occurred. Also, the original text, which would have established a division within the California Department of Technology “to ensure continuous oversight and enforcement,” is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who heads the Senate Budget Committee, told KQED the changes were made in large part to improve the bill’s chances with lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom, given that California is facing a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\"> massive budget deficit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, “I’m not interested in passing a symbolic bill. I would not agree to amendments that would make it weak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Anthropic warned in an open letter addressed to Wiener that it could not support the bill unless it was amended to “respect the evolving nature of risk reduction practices while minimizing rigid, ambiguous, or burdensome rules.” Anthropic is the first major generative AI developer to publicly signal a willingness to work with Wiener on SB 1047.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"ai\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft told KQED it has not taken a position on the bill. Robyn Hines, senior director of state government affairs, wrote that the company would prefer federal legislation but “will continue to work with Senator Wiener and others on legislation that will help harness AI’s full potential and advance sensible safety and security protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, Wiener’s measure has received public criticism from respected industry voices like Andrew Ng, the Stanford professor and former Google executive who detailed his concerns in a\u003ca href=\"https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-252/\"> post\u003c/a> viewed by more than 1 million people\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/andrewyng/status/1798753608974139779?s=61\"> on X\u003c/a>, the social media app formerly known as Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad that we’re exploring paths to the make the bill less bad because a bad bill is better than a very bad bill, but I feel that fundamentally, by regulating hypothetical risks of the technology rather than concrete risks of actual applications, I don’t think this bill will make AI safer,” Ng told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 would only affect companies building the next generation of AI systems that cost more than $100 million to train. However, critics like Ng, who is the managing general partner of AI Funds, argue the mere threat of legal action from the state attorney general will discourage big tech companies from sharing open-source software with smaller ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here in Silicon Valley, do we want startups spending money to write code and build products for people? Or do we want those startups hiring lawyers and hiring auditors and hiring consultants to clarify legal ambiguity to guard against purely hypothetical risks?” Ng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a substantial faction of the AI community, though, that is concerned about hypothetical risks. In an\u003ca href=\"https://safesecureai.org/experts\"> open letter\u003c/a>, four prominent tech policy thinkers praised SB 1047. “Relative to the scale of risks we are facing, this is a remarkably light-touch piece of legislation,” they wrote.[aside label=\"Technology Coverage\" tag=\"technology\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of really eminent scientists who are worried and are taking these risks seriously,” said Nathan Calvin, senior policy counsel at the Center for AI Safety Action Fund, the lobbying arm of the Center for AI Safety, which is one of SB 1047’s co-sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People don’t need to believe the “AI-terminator-wakes-up-and-kills-everyone scenarios are plausible in order to support this bill,” Calvin said, adding that generative AI is capable of relatively banal catastrophic impacts, like enabling hackers and foreign states to take down critical infrastructure or designing and deploying bio-weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Wiener’s bill say opponents are asking Californians to trust Silicon Valley to self-regulate despite a demonstrated history of failing to do so, especially in regard to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844163/proposition-24-californians-say-yes-to-expanding-on-nations-toughest-data-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data privacy\u003c/a> and monitoring hate speech on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702239/why-its-so-hard-to-scrub-hate-speech-off-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Innovation and safety are not mutually exclusive,” Wiener said. “We can do both, and the public wants us to do both. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Remember when, in March of 2023, more than a thousand technology leaders and researchers warned that generative AI could pose “profound risks to society and humanity”? Two months later, some of the industry’s biggest backers promised international leaders they’d be game to build necessary safeguards. A similar pledge was made last month at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, some prominent figures in the AI industry, including many who have raised safety concerns, are dismissing those worries as science fiction as they pitch an open battle against \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047\">SB 1047\u003c/a>, a bill that would mandate safety testing for developers of the largest AI models. That measure is on the state Assembly floor for a vote after passing through the Assembly Appropriations Committee along party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of AI have warned that SB 1047 could stifle the growth of the technology in California. And they’ve rallied three Silicon Valley Congress members — Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Rep. Ro Khanna and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi — to aid their efforts to kill the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The view of many of us in Congress is that SB 1047 is well-intentioned but ill informed,” Pelosi wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-statement-opposition-california-senate-bill-1047\">open letter\u003c/a> published last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re simply requiring these labs to perform the safety testing that they have repeatedly and publicly committed to perform,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976097/california-lawmakers-take-on-ai-regulation-with-a-host-of-bills\"> introduced\u003c/a> the bill and is expected to run to fill Pelosi’s seat once she retires, possibly against her daughter Christine Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he amended the measure to reflect counsel from leaders in the AI space, including safety groups, academics, startups and developers like Amazon-backed Anthropic. A key amendment is that the bill no longer allows California’s attorney general to sue AI companies for negligent safety practices before a catastrophic event has occurred. Also, the original text, which would have established a division within the California Department of Technology “to ensure continuous oversight and enforcement,” is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who heads the Senate Budget Committee, told KQED the changes were made in large part to improve the bill’s chances with lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom, given that California is facing a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\"> massive budget deficit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, “I’m not interested in passing a symbolic bill. I would not agree to amendments that would make it weak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Anthropic warned in an open letter addressed to Wiener that it could not support the bill unless it was amended to “respect the evolving nature of risk reduction practices while minimizing rigid, ambiguous, or burdensome rules.” Anthropic is the first major generative AI developer to publicly signal a willingness to work with Wiener on SB 1047.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft told KQED it has not taken a position on the bill. Robyn Hines, senior director of state government affairs, wrote that the company would prefer federal legislation but “will continue to work with Senator Wiener and others on legislation that will help harness AI’s full potential and advance sensible safety and security protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, Wiener’s measure has received public criticism from respected industry voices like Andrew Ng, the Stanford professor and former Google executive who detailed his concerns in a\u003ca href=\"https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-252/\"> post\u003c/a> viewed by more than 1 million people\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/andrewyng/status/1798753608974139779?s=61\"> on X\u003c/a>, the social media app formerly known as Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad that we’re exploring paths to the make the bill less bad because a bad bill is better than a very bad bill, but I feel that fundamentally, by regulating hypothetical risks of the technology rather than concrete risks of actual applications, I don’t think this bill will make AI safer,” Ng told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 would only affect companies building the next generation of AI systems that cost more than $100 million to train. However, critics like Ng, who is the managing general partner of AI Funds, argue the mere threat of legal action from the state attorney general will discourage big tech companies from sharing open-source software with smaller ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here in Silicon Valley, do we want startups spending money to write code and build products for people? Or do we want those startups hiring lawyers and hiring auditors and hiring consultants to clarify legal ambiguity to guard against purely hypothetical risks?” Ng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a substantial faction of the AI community, though, that is concerned about hypothetical risks. In an\u003ca href=\"https://safesecureai.org/experts\"> open letter\u003c/a>, four prominent tech policy thinkers praised SB 1047. “Relative to the scale of risks we are facing, this is a remarkably light-touch piece of legislation,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of really eminent scientists who are worried and are taking these risks seriously,” said Nathan Calvin, senior policy counsel at the Center for AI Safety Action Fund, the lobbying arm of the Center for AI Safety, which is one of SB 1047’s co-sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People don’t need to believe the “AI-terminator-wakes-up-and-kills-everyone scenarios are plausible in order to support this bill,” Calvin said, adding that generative AI is capable of relatively banal catastrophic impacts, like enabling hackers and foreign states to take down critical infrastructure or designing and deploying bio-weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Wiener’s bill say opponents are asking Californians to trust Silicon Valley to self-regulate despite a demonstrated history of failing to do so, especially in regard to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844163/proposition-24-californians-say-yes-to-expanding-on-nations-toughest-data-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data privacy\u003c/a> and monitoring hate speech on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702239/why-its-so-hard-to-scrub-hate-speech-off-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Innovation and safety are not mutually exclusive,” Wiener said. “We can do both, and the public wants us to do both. The public wants the benefits of AI and wants to reduce the risks of AI, and that is exactly what SB 1047 does.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:55 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/artificial-intelligence\">artificial intelligence\u003c/a> booms, the technology has also given rise to “deepfake” pictures, including manipulated images of young, nude women and children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonconsensual pornographic photos of anyone, including celebrities like Taylor Swift and pre-teens in California, can be generated in a few clicks. In February, faked nude pictures of 16 eighth-grade girls went around a Beverly Hills middle school, prompting expulsions of five fellow students accused of making them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement has left many people, including San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, “horrified.” On Wednesday, he announced that his office had filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against 16 of the largest websites that create and distribute nonconsensual AI-generated pornography, setting up a major test of the laws that currently govern the burgeoning technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to be very clear that this is not innovation — this is sexual abuse,” Chiu said in a statement shared with KQED. “This is a big, multi-faceted problem that we, as a society, need to solve as soon as possible. We all need to do our part to crack down on bad actors using AI to exploit and abuse real people, including children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Deputy City Attorney Yvonne Meré first brought the issue to Chiu this year after seeing news coverage of young girls who were targeted by these deepfake images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was “horrified and fearful thinking of my own 15-year-old daughter and how she would feel if her autonomy was stripped from her, her image distorted, her privacy wholly disregarded,” Meré said during a press conference Wednesday. “And as a lawyer I was frustrated. How can it be that this pernicious practice can go on?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000417\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-13-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-13-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-13-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-13-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-13-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy City Attorney Yvonne Meré speaks during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 15, 2024, about a lawsuit against websites that create and distribute nonconsensual AI-generated pornography. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The suit, which Chiu’s team believes is the first government lawsuit of its kind, hopes to stamp out websites that allow users to create “nonconsensual sexually explicit images” or “undress” women — and, in some cases, children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The real novelty here is that they’re focusing on the companies that create this stuff and not individuals,” Jennifer King, the privacy and data policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While individuals targeted by falsified nude images have pursued legal action before, the goal is generally to get the images scrubbed from the internet or hold the person who created them accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The real difference here is that San Francisco’s going after the actual companies that enable the creation of the material,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies being sued by San Francisco took no effort to hide the nonconsensual nature of the explicit material their users could create, according to the city attorney’s office. One of the websites says: “Imagine wasting time taking her out on dates when you can just use [website] to get her nudes.” Another asks users: “Have someone to undress?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sites make use of open-source generative AI models that are available to the public to adapt and train on specific content, according to the city attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even where the creators of these open-source models subsequently incorporate safeguards into new releases of the model, earlier releases — and fine-tuned versions trained to generate pornographic content — continue to circulate online,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu’s office alleges the companies violate state and federal laws against deepfake, revenge and child pornography. While several states have proposed or enacted legislation to criminalize such nonconsensual AI-generated images, the lawsuit asks the San Francisco Superior Court to order the sites to shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11998817 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ChatGPTGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether this is possible remains to be seen, said professor Colleen Chien, co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In bringing the complaint in state court, the city attorney’s office alleges that the website operators engaged in unlawful and unfair business practices in San Francisco and elsewhere in California. Chien expects the defendants to fight the notion that their violation of laws in San Francisco’s jurisdiction can force them to shutter worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the suit is successful, King said, it likely cannot prevent the creation of this kind of material by private users, since the technology already exists. But it could set a new legal framework for fighting the issue. The design of the suit will test how effective existing laws surrounding AI are at blocking the companies that make this technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this highlights is that though there have been a flurry of new laws, what it might actually need is more law enforcement,” Chien said. “These laws that they’re drawing upon have been out there, but it’s not proven how much they will actually provide protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was one of the first states to pass anti-deepfake legislation in 2019, before the current frenzy over AI: one bill dealing with pornography and the other with political elections. Currently, state lawmakers are set to decide Thursday whether \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1831\">Assembly Bill 1831\u003c/a>, which would expand the scope of these provisions to include material altered or generated with AI, lives to face a floor vote in the Senate or dies. They’ll also decide if Senate Bill 1047, a far-reaching proposal that would require developers of the largest AI models to safety test their technology, will go to an Assembly floor vote or be killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco complaint targets two U.S. companies, one based in England and two based in Estonia, as well as a resident of Estonia and 50 unnamed John Doe defendants whose true identities are not yet known. All operate websites that produce nonconsensual AI-generated images; the entities have been visited a combined 200 million times through the end of June, according to the city attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the defendants are all over the place — they’re in England, they’re in Estonia and they’re in other places — the plaintiffs are in California,” Chien said. “And you also obviously have the biggest platforms sort of releasing the open source tools that are underlying these businesses in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to shutting down the sites, the city attorney’s office is seeking a court order for the defendants to pay the cost of the lawsuit and a civil penalty of $2,500 for each violation of state law against unfair business acts and practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really tough and it’s really unfair. It just shouldn’t be possible,” King said. “This is being done to teenage girls at school. … It impacts them in real life in a very focused way. It’s not just like, ‘random people think I’m naked on the internet.’ It’s my entire peer group.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/rachael-myrow\">Rachael Myrow\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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