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The Aarthi and Sriram ShowShow Notes
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. Show notes: (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 an AI founder, what can you do about this bill today? (50:00) Why is this bill a personal issue for Martin? Other episodes you might enjoy: EP 74 - How To Fix Google's WOKE AI Disaster EP 63 - Lessons From Networking In Silicon Valley EP 59 - Why We Moved to London, The Elon Musk Book, Should You Get An MBA
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