OpenAI has hit out at a California bill aiming to ensure powerful artificial intelligence is deployed safely and suggested that new controls would threaten its growth in the state, joining a last-minute lobbying frenzy by investors and AI groups to block the legislation.
The bill, SB 1047, threatens “California’s unique status as the global leader in AI,” the company’s chief strategy officer Jason Kwon wrote in a letter to Scott Wiener, the California state senator spearheading the bill.
It could “slow the pace of innovation, and lead California’s world-class engineers and entrepreneurs to leave the state in search of greater opportunity elsewhere”, he added.