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Mark Ruffalo and Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Governor Newsom's Veto on the AI Bill Was a Mistake

AI safety isn't science fiction. It’s something we need to pay attention to right now.

It would have held those companies liable for major harms, protected whistleblowers, and mandated proper cybersecurity measures to prevent this powerful tech from falling into the hands of geopolitical adversaries and terrorists. This bill was supported by both startup founders and big time CEOs, Democrats and Republicans, the California Federation of Labor Unions and even Elon Musk who usually opposes regulation. Of course, Newsom couldn’t be seen as kowtowing to Big Tech, and so he publicly claimed that the harms SB 1047 would aim to prevent are not based in “science and fact.” But his argument ignores a large and growing contingent of computer scientists in this space.

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