Also it’s California, so there’s some chance this happens, seriously please don’t do it, nothing is so bad that you have to resort to a ballot proposition, choose life
Why are you saying this? In what sense “nothing is so bad”?
The reason why people who have libertarian sensibilities, distrust for government track record in general and specifically for its track record in tech regulation are making exception in this case is the future AI strong potential for catastrophic and existential risks.
So, why people who generally dislike the mechanism and track record of California ballot propositions should not make an exception here as well?
The whole point of all this effort around SB 1047 is that “nothing is so bad” is an incorrect statement.
And especially given that you are correctly saying:
Thus I reiterate the warning: SB 1047 was probably the most well-written, most well-considered and most light touch bill that we were ever going to get. Those who opposed it, and are now embracing the use-case regulatory path as an alternative thinking it will be better for industry and innovation, are going to regret that. If we don’t get back on the compute and frontier model based path, it’s going to get ugly.
There is still time to steer things back in a good direction. In theory, we might even be able to come back with a superior version of the model-based approach, if we all can work together to solve this problem before something far worse fills the void.
But we’ll need to work together, and we’ll need to move fast.
Sure, there is still a bit of time for a normal legislative effort (this time with a close coordination with Newsom, otherwise he will just veto it again), but if you really think that if a normal route fails, the ballot route is still counter-productive, you need to make a much stronger case for that.
Especially given that the ballot measure will probably pass with large margin and flying colors...
Thanks for the great post!
Why are you saying this? In what sense “nothing is so bad”?
The reason why people who have libertarian sensibilities, distrust for government track record in general and specifically for its track record in tech regulation are making exception in this case is the future AI strong potential for catastrophic and existential risks.
So, why people who generally dislike the mechanism and track record of California ballot propositions should not make an exception here as well?
The whole point of all this effort around SB 1047 is that “nothing is so bad” is an incorrect statement.
And especially given that you are correctly saying:
Sure, there is still a bit of time for a normal legislative effort (this time with a close coordination with Newsom, otherwise he will just veto it again), but if you really think that if a normal route fails, the ballot route is still counter-productive, you need to make a much stronger case for that.
Especially given that the ballot measure will probably pass with large margin and flying colors...