AI will eventually transform the economy, communications, and government itself, bringing uncertainty and, for many people, an understandable hesitance. However, legislators must be careful not to empower an unaccountable bureaucracy to fund itself while stunting an industry with enormous potential to help develop new medical treatments, energy breakthroughs to address climate change, and improve worker productivity.
Legislators are right to take AI seriously, but to preserve California’s entrepreneurship ecosystem—the envy of the world—in a new era, they must guard against these four pitfalls. First is how this agency, the “Frontier Model Division” (FMD), would be funde