I found this website with the actual bill text along with annotations [0]. The section 22757.12. seems to contain the actual details of what they mean by "transparency".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like this definition covers basically all automation of any kind. Like, a dumb lawnmower responds to the input of the throttle lever and the kill switch and generates an output of a spinning blade which influences the physical environment, my lawn.
> “Catastrophic risk” means a foreseeable and material risk that a large developer’s development, storage, use, or deployment of a foundation model will materially contribute to the death of, or serious injury to, more than 50 people or more than one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) in damage to, or loss of, property arising from a single incident, scheme, or course of conduct involving a dangerous capability.
I had a friend that cut his toe off with a lawnmower. I'm pretty sure more than 50 people a year injure themselves with lawn mowers.
Perhaps the result of that investigation is there is no fault on the machine, but you don't know that until you've looked.
In my friend's case, he was mowing on a hill, braced to pull the lawnmower back, and jerked it back onto his foot.
Edit: Looked it up, the number of injuries per year for lawn mowers is around 6k [1]
[1] https://www.wpafb.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/303776...
Some things are inherently dangerous.
I'm not saying that it's a great definition, but I will correct you, since you asked.
They infer from fuzzy input when to activate...
In any case, that definition is only used to further define "foundation model": "an artificial intelligence model that is all of the following: (1) Trained on a broad data set. (2) Designed for generality of output. (3) Adaptable to a wide range of distinctive tasks." This legislation is very clearly not supposed to cover your average ML classifier.
"Everything is the same as everything" as an argumentative tactic and mindset is just incredibly intellectually lazy.
As soon as anyone tries to do anything about anything, ever, anywhere, people like you come out of the wood work and go "well what about this perfectly normal thing? Is that illegal now too???"
Why bother making bombs illegal? I mean, I think stairs kill more people yearly har har har! What, now it's illegal to have a two story house?
Also, elephant in the room: lawnmowers absolutely fucking do contain warning and research on their safety. If you develop a lawnmower, YES you have to research it's safety. YES that's perfectly reasonable. NO that's not an undue burden. And YES everyone is already doing that.