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 [...]

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