"SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a law that aims to prevent people from using powerful artificial intelligence models for potentially catastrophic activities like building a bioweapon or shutting down a bank system. The move comes as Newsom touted California as a leader in AI regulation and criticized the inaction at the federal level in a recent conversation with former President Bill Clinton."
"The legislation requires AI companies to implement and disclose publicly safety protocols to prevent their most advanced models from being used to cause major harm. The rules are designed to cover AI systems if they meet a "frontier" threshold that signals they run on a huge amount of computing power. Such thresholds are based on how many calculations the computers are performing."
"The legislation defines a catastrophic risk as something that would cause at least $1 billion in damage or more than 50 injuries or deaths. It's designed to guard against AI being used for activities that could cause mass disruption, such as hacking into a power grid."
California enacted a law establishing regulations for large-scale "frontier" AI models, requiring companies to implement and publicly disclose safety protocols to prevent major harm. Coverage is triggered by computational thresholds intended to identify the most powerful systems, though those numerical thresholds are acknowledged as an imperfect starting point. The law defines catastrophic risk as at least $1 billion in damage or more than 50 injuries or deaths and targets uses such as building bioweapons, hacking power grids, or disrupting banks. Many leading AI firms based in California will be subject to reporting and safety requirements.
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