Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 53, the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, a bill that is the first of its kind. The goal of the Act is to increase transparency and accountability for large AI companies such as ChatGPT.
The Act addresses the concern that certain large artificial intelligence models could pose “catastrophic risk” if not properly developed and monitored. Under the Act AI companies are required to conspicuously publish on their website compliance with national and international standards as well as industry best practices. The Act also established a consortium, CalCompute, tasked with developing a safe AI model.
As we continue to integrate AI into different facets of education for students and employees, SB 53 has set the tone for California’s standard for regulating these fast developing technologies.
“With a technology as transformative as AI, we have a responsibility to support that innovation while putting in place commonsense guardrails to understand and reduce risk,” Wiener said in a statement. “With this law, California is stepping up, once again, as a global leader on both technology innovation and safety.”
