California · Donald Trump · US Congress · Anthropic · The Verge
With Congress unlikely to act before the midterms, California is angling to take the lead
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Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a “kill switch” for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday.
Key facts
- There’s been a flurry of bill discussions in Congress in the wake of former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s post warning of a more than 10 percent chance that AI “could kill all humans
- At the same time, President Donald Trump has insisted, “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades
- On Wednesday, he floated the possibility of calling California lawmakers in for a special legislative session on AI alongside potential executive action
- With Congress unlikely to act before the midterms, California is angling to take the lead
Summary
With Congress unlikely to act before the midterms, California is angling to take the lead. Newsom’s order directs the state to convene a group of experts that will deliver recommendations within two months on how to strengthen AI safety measures in state law. There’s been a flurry of bill discussions in Congress in the wake of former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s post warning of a more than 10 percent chance that AI “could kill all humans” within a decade. Newsom is calling on Congress and Trump “to review and adopt the state’s framework”