California AI regulation bill heads to must-pass hearing
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Artificial intelligence hasn’t yet reached a point where it could help someone create a virus that causes a pandemic.
But scientists and others at a Wednesday demonstration before California lawmakers are thinking about that day and planning for it.
“We want to close that vulnerability,” said Kevin Esvelt, an associate professor at MIT Media Lab and co-founder of Secure Bio. He added that the risk is small, “but small does not mean zero.”
Following the demonstration against the potential threat AI poses, Esvelt spoke at a press conference about Senate Bill 1047, known as the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act.
