Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi issued a press release late yesterday laying out her opposition to SB 1047, a California invoice that seeks to manage AI.
“The view of many of us in Congress is that SB 1047 is well-intentioned but ill-informed,” Pelosi stated. She famous that different congresspeople from the Bay Area — Zoe Lofgren, Anna Eshoo, and Ro Khanna — have expressed considerations in regards to the invoice, which she described as “more harmful than helpful.”
The invoice was not too long ago amended to deal with considerations from critics, together with AI firm Anthropic, and is at present headed to California’s Assembly for a vote. Since this can be a state invoice, Pelosi and others in Congress don’t have any official say — although Pelosi’s seniority and profile are doubtless to offer her opinion weight with California politicians.
“AI springs from California,” she stated. “We must have legislation that is a model for the nation and the world. We have the opportunity and responsibility to enable small entrepreneurs and academia – not big tech – to dominate.”
State Senator Scott Wiener, who sponsored the invoice, issued his personal assertion in response, saying that whereas he has “enormous respect” for Pelosi, “I respectfully and strongly disagree with her statement.”
“The invoice requires solely the biggest AI builders to do what every one in every of them has repeatedly dedicated to do: Perform primary security testing on massively highly effective AI fashions,” Wiener added.
