Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California
Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order asking a working group to report within two months on strengthening California’s AI safety laws, including whether companies should build a kill switch for frontier models. He vetoed SB 1047, which required developers to be able to promptly enact a full shutdown, in September 2024. Gavin Newsom signed [...] This story continues at The Next Web
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