Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California

Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order asking a working group to report within two months on strengthening California’s AI safety laws, including whether companies should build a kill switch for frontier models. He vetoed SB 1047, which required developers to be able to promptly enact a full shutdown, in September 2024.

Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday telling a working group to report within two months on how to strengthen California’s AI safety laws, Bloomberg reported. Among the measures it should consider is making companies build a kill switch for frontier models.

He vetoed a bill that required one.

SB 1047 would have obliged developers of covered models to be able to “promptly enact a full shutdown“, stopping operation and further training. Newsom vetoed it on 29 September 2024, arguing it regulated models by size and cost rather than by what they are...

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