Gov. Newsom touts AI initiatives in veto of sweeping legislation for mandatory testing

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced an initiative to protect workers from the effects of generative artificial intelligence in his statement announcing the veto of sweeping legislation that would have imposed first-time mandatory testing requirements on AI developers.

“The Governor has asked the world’s leading experts on GenAI to help California develop workable guardrails for deploying GenAI, focusing on developing an empirical, science-based trajectory analysis of frontier models and their capabilities and attendant risks,” Newsom’s office said in a...