CALIFORNIA’S GOVERNOR FACES A DILEMMA with an Oct. 13 deadline to sign AI bills passed by the state legislature. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) seeks to balance Silicon Valley’s dominance in AI against state lawmakers’ attempts to rein in potential harms from the sector, and his decision will be closely watched by tech companies and lawmakers.
- The first-in-the-nation bills passed by the state legislature last week include one mandating disclosures of safety policies and another placing guardrails on AI usage in the workplace.
- The governor faced similar choices last year, enacting more minor AI guardrails such as anti-deepfake protections, while vetoing ...