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SB 1047 was a California state bill (2024) that sparked significant debate in the AI community; this guide by Zvi Mowshowitz (a prominent AI safety blogger) offers detailed analysis of its provisions and implications for AI governance.

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Zvi Mowshowitz provides a comprehensive guide and analysis of California's SB 1047, a landmark AI safety bill that would impose safety requirements on large AI model developers. The post examines the bill's provisions, likely impacts, and the debate surrounding it in the AI safety and tech communities.

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•SB 1047 proposed mandatory safety evaluations and documentation requirements for AI models above certain compute thresholds in California.
•The bill targeted frontier AI developers, requiring them to implement safety protocols and demonstrate compliance before deployment.
•Zvi analyzes both the potential benefits of the legislation for AI safety and the concerns raised by critics in the tech industry.
•The guide covers key provisions including hazardous capability evaluations, incident reporting, and developer liability frameworks.
•SB 1047 became a major flashpoint in debates about government regulation of frontier AI development.

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# Guide to SB 1047

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We now likely know the final form of California’s SB 1047.

There have been many changes to the bill as it worked its way to this point.

Many changes, including some that were just announced, I see as strict improvements.

Anthropic was behind many of the last set of amendments at the Appropriations Committee. In keeping with their "Support if Amended" letter, there are a few big compromises that weaken the upside protections of the bill somewhat in order to address objections and potential downsides.

The primary goal of this post is to answer the question: What would SB 1047 do?

I offer two versions: Short and long.

The short version summarizes what the bill does, at the cost of being a bit lossy.

The long version is based on a full RTFB: I am reading the entire bill, once again.

In between those two I will summarize the recent changes to the bill, and provide some practical ways to understand what the bill does.

After, I will address various arguments and objections, reasonable and otherwise.

My conclusion: This is by far the best light-touch bill we are ever going to get.

#### Short Version (tl;dr): What Does SB 1047 Do in Practical Terms?

This section is intentionally simplified, but in practical terms I believe this covers the parts that matter. For full details see later sections.

First, I will echo the One Thing To Know.

**If you do not train either a model that requires $100 million or more in compute, or fine tune such an expensive model using $10 million or more in your own additional compute (or operate and rent out a very large computer cluster)?**

**Then this law does not apply to you, at all.**

**This 

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