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Technology,
Government

Oct. 1, 2024

Newsom signed many AI-related bills, just not the big one

Opponents raised worries that even though SB 1047 was not written with a private right of action, civil suits from the attorney general's office could clog the courts.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed more than a dozen new laws to regulate artificial intelligence this year. But he rejected the one that most concerned the multi-billion-dollar industry largely based in California.

Technology companies were worried that SB 1047 targeted companies by size rather than by the potential danger of what their AI models were designed to do.

"Foundationally, it didn't try to regulate specific issues relative to AI," said Michael La Marca, w...

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