I’m really excited to resume the Interconnects Interviews with Dean W. Ball from the Hyperdimensional Substack. We cover the whole stack of recent happenings in AI policy, focusing of course on California’s bill SB 1047. We cover many, many more great topics here including:

• What will happen in the case of a minor AI disaster,
• If Meta will release the 405B model, and why,
• The status of Chinese open-source AI,
• Training on model outputs,
• Anthropic’s recent strategy,
• What scaling laws actually mean,
• Creating content and shifting the needle of the AI discourse.

View online: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/interviewing-dean-ball-on-ai-policy

Chapters

• 00:00 Intro and Welcome Dean Ball 
• 02:44 The Origins of California Bill SB1047 
• 08:56 The Evolution of Bill SB1047 
• 13:00 How SB1047 Affects Fine-Tuning 
• 20:00 The Future of Bill SB1047 
• 21:58 The Impact of AI Disasters 
• 29:02 Meta and its 400 billion Parameter Model 
• 32:25 Open Source AI and the Chinese Market 
• 37:37 The Future of Open Source AI 
• 43:35 Synthetic Data, Licenses, and Future AI Development 
• 45:18 Anthropic's Approach to AI Safety 
• 50:46 Scaling Laws 
• 53:01 The Role of Audience in Influencing AI Policy