We spoke with the architect behind the notorious AI safety bill

Photo caption: California state Senator Scott Weiner, left, speaks during a press conference at Alamo Square Park about a new bill to close a loophole in prosecuting automobile break-ins, on November 26, 2018, in San Francisco. Photo credit: Lea Suzuki / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images. Article by Kelsey Piper. Vox – updated August 28, 2024.

California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) is generally known for his relentless bills on housing and public safety, a legislative record that made him one of the tech industry’s favorite legislators. His introduction of the “Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models” bill, however, gained the ire of that very same industry, with VC heavyweights Andreessen-Horowitz and Y Combinator publicly condemning the bill. […]

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