California's New AI Bill: SB 53 Protects Whistleblowers & Funds Public AI Cloud
California Senator Wiener introduces SB 53, an AI bill protecting whistleblowers in AI labs and creating a public cloud computing cluster.
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California's New AI Bill: SB 53 Protects Whistleblowers & Funds Public AI Cloud
The author of California’s SB 1047, the nation’s most controversial AI safety bill of 2024, is back with a new AI bill that could shake up Silicon Valley. Image Credits:David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images California state Senator Scott Wiener introduced a new bill on Friday that would protect employees at leading AI labs, allowing them to speak out if they think their company’s AI systems could be a “critical risk” to society. The new bill, SB 53, would also create a public cloud computing cluster, called CalCompute, to give researchers and startups the necessary computing resources to develop AI that benefits the public. Wiener’s last AI bill, California’s SB 1047, sparked a lively debate across the country around how to handle massive AI systems that could cause disasters. SB 1047 aimed to prevent the possibility of very large AI models creating catastrophic events, such as causing loss of life or cyberattacks costing more than $500 million in damages. However, Governor Gavin …
