Governor Newsom vetoed SB 1047 yesterday through the lobbying of AI companies such as Open AI, Google, Meta, and venture capital firms.
The bill would have made tech companies legally liable for the harm caused by AI models. Additionally, it would have required them to have a “kill switch” to prevent “critical harms” by AI, such as going rogue or being misused. The veto is deleterious.
When I speak of the dangers of AI, it is not because AI must be made inherently detrimental, it is because of those controlling it that it has become one of the biggest threats to free choice, creativity, and privacy.
That those with profit interests have control over these three critical human factors should deeply concern you.
That those who create these models have blocked any responsibility or accountability should infuriate you.
That businesses and investors do not want there to be a mechanism in place to stop AI systems from causing uncontrollable untold harm, should enrage you.
There is no world that will be accessible, equitable, or life-centered with the direction they are pushing us toward.
We cannot allow companies, politicians, and investor interests to control our volition, privacy, and creativity.
Keep those three yours at all costs.
Choose to opt out of surveillance when possible, go through the trouble of opting out of trackers, keep your face from facial recognition in public, hold onto your biometrics, thwart algorithms online, stop using optional AI features, keep your creations out of the way of AI consumption, keep your digital self on lock.
Note who lobbies against your volition, your privacy, your creativity.
Among those included is Meta of this very platform. Use it and don’t use it accordingly.
Follow along at keepbeyond.com/optout
where I will continue to update on the fight for our humanity.
Keep your volition, privacy, creativity.
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