While I have no trust in companies handling AI development safely and ethically (not even talking about existential risks, just the problems we already have), I have significantly less trust in government committees.

And risk for open source is somewhat concerning.

I meta-predict that for many of us, the following from Scott Aaronson will be persuasive that the answer is that SB-1047 is good: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8269 (it was for me)

In Support of SB 1047

I've finished my two-year leave at OpenAI, and returned to being just a normal (normal?) professor, quantum complexity theorist, and blogger. Despite the huge drama at OpenAI that coincided with my time there, including the departures of most of the people I worked with in the former Superalignment team, I'm incredibly grateful to OpenAI for…

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