A sprawling California AI bill offers protection to whistleblowers and citizens.
Email addressAlphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, on May 14, 2024. California lawmakers are weighing a bill that would regulate powerful artificial intelligence systems but big tech companies, including Google, say the legislation would hamper innovation. Photo by Jeff Chiu, AP PhotoThe sprawling California legislation offers protection to whistleblowers and citizens. The coming weeks could decide its fate.
Establish CalCompute, a public “cloud” of shared computers that could be used to help build and host AI tools, to offer an alternative to the small handful of big tech companies offering cloud computing services, to conduct research into what the bill calls “the safe and secure deployment of large-scale artificial intelligence models,” and to foster the equitable development of technology.
and a former Instagram employee, cosponsored California’s Silenced No More Act, a state law passed in 2022 to give workers the right to talk about discrimination and harassment even if they signed a non-disclosure agreement. Existing law primarily protects whistleblowers from retaliation in cases involving violation of state law, but SB 1047 would protect employees like Kokotajlo by giving them the right to report to the attorney general or labor commissioner any AI model that is capable of causing critical harm. The bill also prevents employers from blocking the disclosure of related information.by the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection committee in June.
Instead, opponents have highlighted the bill’s AI testing requirements and other safety provisions, saying compliance costs could kneecap startups and other small businesses. This would hurt the state economy, they add, since California islimits its AI restrictions to systems that cost more than $100 million, or require more than a certain quantity of computing power to train.
Open source defenders also voiced opposition to SB 1047 at a town hall hosted with Wiener at GitHub, an open source repository owned by Microsoft, and a generative AI symposium held in May.
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