California’s failed AI safety bill is a warning to Britain – POLITICO

LONDON — California has a message for Britain: Good luck trying to regulate AI.

The Golden State’s governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday vetoed a bill which sought to impose safety vetting requirements on developers of powerful artificial intelligence models — siding with much of Silicon Valley and high profile politicians like Nancy Pelosi in the process.

The demise of the bill will come as a warning for Britain’s Labour government, which is drafting a proposal similarly aimed at placing restraints on the most powerful forms of the technology known as frontier AI.