Sriram and Aarthi are joined by Martin Casado, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, to discuss the future of the AI Safety Bill SB 1047. A bill that sets out to regulate AI at the model level, is now slated for a California Assembly vote in August. If passed, one signature from Governor Gavin Newsom could cement it into California law.
Show notes:
(00:00) Trailer and intro on SB1047
(00:43) Welcome Martin Casado of a16z
(2:30) What is SB1047?
(4:10) What is the origin of SB1047 bill?
(6:14) Should AI be regulated?
(10:20) Is AI a paradigm shift?
(13:36) Who is funding this bill? ‘Baptists vs bootleggers’ and Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence book being the origin point.
(16:35) Scott Wiener’s support of the bill
(19:34) Open source benefitting software world and risks to open source due to this bill
(22:10) Are large models more dangerous?
(24:10) Is there a correlation between size of models and risk associated?
(26:45) How would Martin frame any regulations on AI? What’s a better way
(28:46) Nancy Pelosi opposes the bill. Some famous researchers are for the bill. Who comprises the two opposing camps and what is the motivation?
(33:10) Why does Pelosi oppose the bill?
(35:00) Leopold Aschenbrenner and “Situational Awareness” paper
(37:20) Non-system people viewing systems - computer systems are not parametric but sigmoidal.
(41:30) AI is the ultimate ‘Deus ex machina’ (God in the machine)
(44:15) Sriram compares AI regulations to Game of Thrones episode
(46:00) Anthropic’s investment in AI safety
(48:15) If you’re an AI founder, what can you do about this bill today?
(50:00) Why is this bill a personal issue for Martin?
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