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“Re: Anthropic’s suggested SB-1047 amendments” by RobertM


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If you're familiar with SB 1047, I recommend reading the letter in full; it's only 7 pages.

I'll go through their list of suggested changes and briefly analyze them, and then make a couple high-level points. (I am not a lawyer and nothing written here is legal advice.)

Major Changes

Greatly narrow the scope of pre-harm enforcement to focus solely on (a) failure to develop, publish, or implement an SSP[1] (the content of which is up to the company); (b) companies making materially false statements about an SSP; (c) imminent, catastrophic risks to public safety.

Motivated by the following concern laid out earlier in the letter:

The current bill requires AI companies to design and implement SSPs that meet certain standards – for example they must include testing sufficient to provide a “reasonable assurance” that the AI system will not cause a catastrophe, and must [...]

The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration.

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First published:

July 27th, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oa4AQ7K9vKHroc5Co/re-anthropic-s-suggested-sb-1047-amendments

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