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Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, recently expressed support for a California AI Safety Bill, which attracted notice from the industry at large. The Bill, SB 1047, is a novel approach that focuses on the advancement of artificial intelligence. OpenAI, a significant industry participant, is even considering supporting a different bill as the popularity of other businesses continues to erode this AI bill.
Elon Musk is in support of the California AI Bill SB 1047.
The American entrepreneur said, "This is a tough call and will make some people upset, but, all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill," in a post published on X on August 27. Elon Musk's stance has garnered a lot of popularity in the industry as AI behemoths continue to dismantle the aforementioned bill.
The SB 1037 Bill requires AI developers to invest over $100 million in developing a model for "safety testing." The attorney general is still obligated to pursue legal action against the developer in the event that the firms breach the Bill and result in losses greater than $500 million.
Nonetheless, the Bill received harsh condemnation from major players in the field, including Google and OpenAI. Jason Kwon, the chief strategy officer of OpenAI, made a suggestion recently that the California AI bill would impede the development and expansion of important industries. In contrast to Elon Musk's backing of SB 1047, it seems that Sam Altman's OpenAI is simultaneously advocating for another AI bill.
OpenAI Supports AB 3211, the AI Bill
On the other hand, it looks that the creator of ChatGPT is in favor of the AB 3211 AI Bill, which mandates the "watermarking" of artificial intelligence, or synthetic material. This new bill requires digital companies to label anything created by artificial intelligence (AI), which can range from deepfakes intended to propagate false information about political candidates to harmless memes.
Still, the SB 1047 currently makes the AB 3211 appear little. Industry-wide
conjecture persists on the potential application of the California AI "Safety
Bill" to suppress open-weight companies—that is, companies providing the
general public with access to their trained models.
In response to Elon Musk's article on X today, Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, stated that recent Bill-wise developments show attempts to bring open-weights within its purview. The "charitable read of the bill is that the (medium-term) goal is to mandate safety testing," he continued, nonetheless.
Meanwhile, in yet another exciting development, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla has gained international recognition for his social networking platform X. After Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, was arrested, Elon Musk acknowledged that X might be the next target of censorship.