Brian Albrecht on California’s Efforts to Regulate AI
ICLE Chief Economist Brian Albrecht was quoted by GZero in a story about California’s efforts to regulate artificial intelligence. You can read the full piece here.
Brian Albrecht, the chief economist at the International Center for Law & Economics, was not surprised by the companies’ willingness to share their models with the government. “This is a very standard response to expected regulation,” Albrecht said. “And it’s always tough to know how voluntary any of this is.”
…On Aug. 28, the state’s legislature passed the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act, or SB 1047, which aims to establish “common sense safety standards” for powerful AI models. Written by California State Sen. Scott Wiener, and supported by AI pioneers like Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, the bill has divided Silicon Valley companies. Albrecht said that what’s been proposed by California is much closer to the European model of AI regulation — the EU’s AI Act passed in March — while Washington hasn’t yet adopted a unified view on how the technology should be regulated.