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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