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California’s Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act is one of the first significant regulations of artificial intelligence in the United States that, if signed, would place liability on the developers of AI models.

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Before a company can begin to initially train a covered model, the bill would require AI developers to publicly post disclosures about how the company will test the likelihood of the model to cause critical harm and the conditions under which the model will be fully shutdown, as well as a filing of the same with the California Attorney General (AG).

Violations would be enforceable by the California AG with the civil penalty up to 10% of the cost of the quantity of computing power used to train the model and 30% for any subsequent violation.

SB 1047 would also establish a Government Operations Agency, a consortium that would be required to develop a framework for the creation of a public cloud computing cluster.

The California legislature sent 38 AI bills to the Governor’s office as the 2024 legislation session came to a close, eight of which have already been signed, regulating everything from deepfake nudes and AI-generated celebrity clones to election tampering. Governor Newsom has until September 30 to sign the rest, including California Senate Bill 1047, known as the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act. SB 1047 is one of the first significant regulations of...

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