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AI X AI = ABSOLUTE INSANITY 🤯
If you’re not following the intense debate over California’s AI law, SB 1047, you’re not following AI.
The law, introduced by Senator Scott Wiener, is designed to create some level of oversight for the most powerful AI models, focusing on those costing over $100 million to develop or $10 million to fine-tune. Given AI’s potential to reshape society, those thresholds seem reasonable to most.
Yet, a powerful lobby in Silicon Valley is fighting tooth and nail to stop it. Leading the charge are figures linked to Mark Zuckerberg, including his longtime board member Marc Andreessen and Meta’s Chief AI Scientist, Yann LeCun. They argue that regulation would stifle innovation, with Andreessen even going so far as to claim that preventing AI from existing due to over-regulation is equivalent to “a form of murder.”
Surprisingly, they offer no alternative legislation to protect the general public. Their position is clear: no regulation is the best regulation. Andreessen and LeCun, along with their allies in the VC world, have aggressively dismissed concerns about AI safety, labeling those who raise the issue — such as AI leaders Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio — as “doomers” or worse.
What’s truly insane is that this anti-regulation lobby wants absolute immunity for AI developers. No accountability, no oversight — just…
