The Nonlinear Library EA - Californians, tell your reps to vote yes on SB 1047! by Holly Elmore
Aug 12, 2024
02:17
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Hello Californians!
We need you to help us fight for SB 1047, a landmark bill to help set a benchmark for AI safety, decrease existential risk, and promote safety research. This bill has been supported by some of
the world's leading AI scientists and the Center of AI Safety, and is extremely important for us to pass. As Californians, we have a unique opportunity to inspire other states to follow suit.
Unfortunately, due to
misinformation and
lobbying by big tech companies, SB 1047 is currently stalled in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. It may be killed if it does not get advanced by August 19th. This would be a significant blow against safety and would continue the "race to the bottom" in AI capabilities without any guardrails.
We need you to do the following to save the bill. This will take no more than 5 minutes:
Email the Chair (Buffy Wicks, D) and Vice-Chair (Kate Sanchez, R) of the Appropriations Committee, and ask them to advance the bill without watering it down.
Buffy Wicks:
assemblymember.wicks@assembly.ca.gov
Kate Sanchez:
assemblymember.sanchez@assembly.ca.gov
Email templates and examples can be found here.
Call the offices of the Chair and Vice-Chair in support of the bill. The best day to do this is August 16.
Buffy Wicks (D): (916) 319-2014
Kate Sanchez (R): (916) 319-2071
These calls can be very short (~1 minute) and straightforward.
See here for more guidance.
Here's a Google Calendar event you can use to mark the date on your calendar.
This document has additional information about the bill and other ways to help.
Please try to get this done as soon as possible, and let us know if you need any help. Your voice matters, and it is urgent that we push this before it's too late.
Thank you so much for your support!
Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org
See the event page here.
Hello Californians!
We need you to help us fight for SB 1047, a landmark bill to help set a benchmark for AI safety, decrease existential risk, and promote safety research. This bill has been supported by some of
the world's leading AI scientists and the Center of AI Safety, and is extremely important for us to pass. As Californians, we have a unique opportunity to inspire other states to follow suit.
Unfortunately, due to
misinformation and
lobbying by big tech companies, SB 1047 is currently stalled in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. It may be killed if it does not get advanced by August 19th. This would be a significant blow against safety and would continue the "race to the bottom" in AI capabilities without any guardrails.
We need you to do the following to save the bill. This will take no more than 5 minutes:
Email the Chair (Buffy Wicks, D) and Vice-Chair (Kate Sanchez, R) of the Appropriations Committee, and ask them to advance the bill without watering it down.
Buffy Wicks:
assemblymember.wicks@assembly.ca.gov
Kate Sanchez:
assemblymember.sanchez@assembly.ca.gov
Email templates and examples can be found here.
Call the offices of the Chair and Vice-Chair in support of the bill. The best day to do this is August 16.
Buffy Wicks (D): (916) 319-2014
Kate Sanchez (R): (916) 319-2071
These calls can be very short (~1 minute) and straightforward.
See here for more guidance.
Here's a Google Calendar event you can use to mark the date on your calendar.
This document has additional information about the bill and other ways to help.
Please try to get this done as soon as possible, and let us know if you need any help. Your voice matters, and it is urgent that we push this before it's too late.
Thank you so much for your support!
Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org