California legislators once again challenge Newsom’s technological links with Bill AI

Last year, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed an extremely popular (among the public) and extremely controversial bill (among technological companies) which would have established robust security guidelines for the development and functioning of artificial intelligence models. Now he will have a second blow – this time with at least part of the technological industry giving him the green light. On Saturday, California legislators adopted Bill 53 of the Senate, historical legislation that would oblige companies in matters of AI to submit to new security tests.

Bill 53 of the Senate, which is now awaiting the governor’s signature to become the law in the state, would oblige companies to build “border” AI models – systems that require massive amounts of data and calculation power to function – to provide more transparency in their processes. This would include the disclosure of security incidents involving dangerous or deceptive behavior by autonomous AI systems, providing more clarity in safety and safety protocols and risk assessments, and providing protections for denunciators who are concerned about potential damage that can come from models on which they work.

The bill – which would apply to business work such as Openai, Google, Xai, Anthropic and others – was certainly completed from previous attempts to set up a large security framework for the AI ​​industry. The bill that Newsom has opposed its veto last year, for example, would have established a compulsory “killing switch” for models in order to tackle the potential to become a thug. This is nowhere here. A previous version of SB 53 also applied security requirements to small businesses, but that has changed. In the version that adopted the Senate and the Assembly, companies bringing together less than $ 500 million in annual income have only to disclose high -level security details rather than more granular information, by Politico – a change in part at the demand of the technology industry.

Whether this is enough to satisfy Newsom (or more specifically, satisfy the technological companies which he would like to continue to receive campaign contributions). Anthropic recently softened the legislation, choosing to take support behind him a few days before his officially adoption. But commercial groups such as the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Chamber for Progress, which are among its member companies like Amazon, Google and Meta, have proven to be in opposition to the bill. OPENAI also reported its opposition to the regulations that California continued to specifically appoint SB 53.

After the Trump administration has tried to implement a 1 -year moratorium on the states of implementing regulations on AI, California has the possibility of leading to the question – which makes sense, since most companies at the forefront of space operate inside its borders. But this fact also seems to be part of the reason why Newsom is so shy to draw the trigger from the regulations despite all its role on many other questions. His political ambitions require money to work, and these companies have a lot to offer.