A16Z's Martin Casado Explains California’s AI Safety Bill SB1047

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 a AI founder, what can you do about this bill today?
50:00 - Why is this bill a personal issue for Martin?

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.

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