This February, California state senator Scott Wiener (D – San Francisco) introduced Senate Bill 1047, which, if passed, would require the companies behind the world’s largest, most advanced AI models to take steps to guarantee their safety before releasing the models to the public. For a piece of state legislation, the bill has unusual international importance. Most of the companies making such models are headquartered in California. Despite write-ups in the San Francisco Chronicle and Washingto...