California's SB 1047 bill, authored by CA State Senator Scott Wiener, is the leading attempt by a US state to regulate catastrophic risks from frontier AI in the wake of President Biden's 2023 AI Executive Order.

Today’s debate:

Holly Elmore, Executive Director of Pause AI US, representing Pro- SB 1047

Greg Tanaka, Palo Alto City Councilmember, representing Anti- SB 1047

Key Bill Supporters: Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Anthropic, PauseAI, and about a 2/3 majority of California voters surveyed.

Key Bill Opponents: OpenAI, Google, Meta, Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz

Links

Greg mentioned that the "Supporters & Opponents" tab on this page lists organizations who registered their support and opposition. The vast majority of organizations listed here registered support against the bill: https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1047

Holly mentioned surveys of California voters showing popular support for the bill:1. Center for AI Safety survey shows 77% support: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wmvstgKo0kozd3tShPagDr1k0uAuzdDM/view2. Future of Life Institute survey shows 59% support: https://futureoflife.org/ai-policy/poll-shows-popularity-of-ca-sb1047/

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