Outcry from big AI firms over California AI “kill switch” bill

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Outcry from big AI firms over California AI “kill switch” bill
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If companies are crying about it then it's probably a great thing for consumers.

Eat billionaires.

The California bill was co-sponsored by the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), a San Francisco-based non-profit run by computer scientist Dan Hendrycks, who is the safety adviser to Musk’s AI start-up, xAI. CAIS has close ties to the effective altruism movement, which was made famous by jailed cryptocurrency executive Sam Bankman-Fried.

Ahh, yes. Elon Musk, paragon of consumer protection. Let's just trust his safety guy.

It's designed to give the big players a monopoly, seems bad for the majority of us

So if smaller companies are crying about huge companies using reglation they have lobbied for (as in this case through a lobbying oranisation set up with "effective altruism" money) being used prevent them from being challenged: should we still assume its great?

Rewind all the stupid assumptions you're making and you basically have no comment left.

Bravo on the concise take down. What a great way to put that

My current day is only just starting, so I'll modify the standard quote a bit to ensure it encompasses enough things to be meaningful; this is the dumbest thing I've read all yesterday.

Which assumption? It's a fact that this was co-sponsored by the CAIS, who have ties to effective altruism and Musk, and it is a fact that smaller startups and open source groups are complaining that this will hand an AI oligopoly to huge tech firms.