Namhafte Experten unterstützen Kaliforniens wegweisendes KI-Sicherheitsgesetz | „Für KI-Systeme, die katastrophale Risiken bergen könnten, gibt es weniger Vorschriften als für Sandwichläden oder Friseure.“

„Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Lawrence Lessig, and Stuart Russell argue that the next generation of AI systems pose “severe risks” if “developed without sufficient care and oversight,” and describe the bill as the “bare minimum for effective regulation of this technology.”

“Relative to the scale of risks we are facing, this is a *remarkably* light-touch piece of legislation,” the letter says.

The bill … requires AI companies training large-scale models to conduct rigorous safety testing for potentially dangerous capabilities and implement comprehensive safety measures to mitigate risks.

While [polls](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/65ea6ad22e449b11a1df46b0/t/6694cb31c6758b310ba372f2/1721027377736/SB+1047+poll+memo.pdf) suggest the bill is supported by the majority of Californians, it has been subject to harsh opposition from industry groups and tech investors.

“As some of the experts who understand these systems most, we can say confidently that these risks are probable and significant enough to make safety testing and common-sense precautions necessary,” the authors of the letter write.

Bengio and Hinton, who have [previously supported](https://www.wate.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/714330132/california-senate-bill-sb-1047-another-stifling-blow-to-silicon-valley-ai-startups/) the bill, are both winners of the Turing Award, and often referred to as “godfathers of AI,” alongside Yann LeCun. Russell has written a textbook—*Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach*—that is [widely considered](https://www.nobelprize.org/events/nobel-week-dialogue/gothenburg-2019/panellists/stuart-russell/) to be the standard textbook on AI. And Lessig, a Professor of Law at Harvard, is broadly regarded as a founding figure of Internet law and a pioneer in the free culture movement, having founded the Creative Commons and authored influential books on copyright and technology law.

In addition to the risks noted above, they cite risks posed by autonomous AI agents that could act without human oversight among their concerns.

“I worry that technology companies will not solve these significant risks on their own while locked in their race for market share and profit maximization. That’s why we need some rules for those who are at the frontier of this race,“ Bengio told TIME over email.