Disruption

Tech coalition presses Newsom to reject AI regulation bill

The eight organizations that signed onto a letter called it ‘heavy-handed’ and disconnected from reality.
The OpenAI logo is seen displayed on a cell phone with an image on a computer screen generated by ChatGPT’s Dall-E text-to-image model, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

A coalition of tech and business groups is urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to veto a high-profile artificial intelligence bill if it reaches his desk during the legislature’s final sprint before adjourning.

In just the latest advocacy effort to kill the controversial legislation, a letter sent to Newsom on Tuesday blasts Sen. Scott Wiener’s (D) Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act as “fundamentally flawed and mistargeted” and warns that if enacted it “would badly set back artificial intelligence (AI) in California and beyond.”

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