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the AI Safety Measures Act creates a framework that will require the “developers of the largest advanced AI systems” (read: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) to provide public disclosures as to their safety practices, report any significant safety incidents, and remain in line with a set of compliance processes. It also creates a channel for whistleblowers working inside AI labs to safely and securely relay any safety concerns they might have without fear of repercussions.

Whoa this sounds pretty serious. It asks these companies to self report safety incidents and creates a "channel" for whistleblowers.

That's some serious hammer dropping. 🙄

OpenAI and Anthropic both endorsed the bill as it moved through the legislature

Of course they did because this is just the Democratic version of what Republicans do with regulatory capture. They just like to dress their version up with a facade of "consumer protections" when the law doesn't actually protect anyone or improve anything.

Those requirements are set to go into effect on January 1, 2028, now that the bill has been signed into law.

Why is he waiting 1.5 years to drop the hammer?

I would hardly call this dropping a hammer, though. I mean, the article itself says that OpenAI was lobbying for stuff like this.

For one, I don't think it's addressing any of the most troublesome problems. No mention of environmental impact. No mention of societal impact, or economic one. Nobody is addressing the horrible misuse of LLMs in, say education or biases that are built into the LLMs.

For two, what are the consequences? Sam Altman can go around saying whatever the hell he wants, mislead the government, the public, even their own users. No consequences. They can use bait and switch, no problems. The worst thing they can get is a few million dollars of fines. That's for the long time been just the cost of doing business.

It's a fig leaf law that doesn't look at any of the worst problems we have but the worst offenders can use it to say "no wait we're regulated".

I think this just means that people won't build AI data centers there (for now), which is awesome for them tbh

Are your taxes going down?