Newsom signs an order: prepare SI safety rules for California within two months, including a model "kill switch"
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California, home to almost all the leading SI labs, wants to build an "off button" into models, an attempt to hold a leash that gets harder to hold with every month.
The state's Government Operations Agency, together with the Office of Emergency Services, will assemble experts who will propose within two months how to tighten the laws. The list includes requiring developers of frontier models to keep independent reviewers on site for regular audits, reviewing their safety plans, creating a mechanism for emergency model shutdown with independent verification that it works, and including loss of control in the definition of critical incidents. The authorities cited recent incidents such as the attack by SI agents on Hugging Face as the reason. "We are not waiting; we are speeding up oversight before it is too late," Newsom said.
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