Attack ads in CA senate race hit Scott Wiener as too soft on AI
Attack ads in the California senate race criticize Scott Wiener for being too soft on AI, prompting pushback from Nathan Calvin, who worked with Wiener on SB 1047. Calvin calls the attacks 'laughably absurd,' noting the bill was the first frontier AI safety regulation in the nation and was vetoed for being too strong. He shared longer rebuttal remarks addressing what he calls attempts to rewrite history. No response from the ads' backers is shown.
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- some longer thoughts I wrote the last time I saw these claims pop up@_nathancalvin: If you had told me two years ago, when I was working with Senator Wiener on SB 1047, that someone would try to rewrite history to claim he was soft on AI regulation, I would have laughed in your face. But here we are. So let's get the facts straight. Scott Wiener wrote the bill the AI industry lobbied Congress to preempt. Senator Ted Cruz has publicly cited SB 1047 as one of the reasons motivatin…2 likes · 0 reposts
- As someone who worked closely with Senator Scott Wiener on SB 1047 (first in the nation frontier AI safety regulation hated by big AI companies and vetoed for being too strong), the idea of him being attacked for being unwilling to regulate AI is laughably absurdabsurd that the attack ads against Scott Wiener in the CA senate race are specifically lambasting him for being… too soft on AI80 likes · 5 reposts
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