Artificial intelligence companies are pushing back against California state lawmakers’ demand that they install a “kill switch” designed to mitigate potential dangers posed by the new technology — with some threatening to leave Silicon Valley altogether.
Scott Wiener, a Democratic state senator, introduced legislation that would force tech companies to comply with regulations fleshed out by a new government-run agency designed to prevent AI companies from allowing their products to gain “a hazardous capability” such as starting a nuclear war.
Wiener and other lawmakers want to install guardrails around “extremely large” AI systems that have the potential to spit out instructions for creating disasters…
