Turner urges extending deceptive-statement bill to executive claims
Turner supports Councilmember Wilson's Intro 2603 but notes it only covers advertisements. He urges extending it to public statements by AI company executives about safety commitments, referencing the book 'The Infinity Machine' on DeepMind's internal governance fight.
Councilmember Wilson's bill, Introduction 2603, would bar materially false or misleading statements about an AI model's risks and the measures taken to manage them.
I think that's a good step, but it only covers advertisements.
The CEO telling the press or employees that nothing has changed about the company's safety commitments isn't an ad.
I encourage extending 2603 to public statements by AI companies and their executives about their safety commitments.
This book is called The Infinity Machine.
It reveals that Demis once fought within Google for independent governance of AGI, stating that the technology is too important to be controlled by corporate interests and profit motives.
After fighting for years with Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Demas accepted defeat.
He now apparently has had a change of heart, claiming that actually trustless independent governance is unwise and a seat at the table of Google executives is better.
While Demis was seated at this table, Google signed a deal that its former principles would have prohibited.
I felt ashamed of Dennis and of working at Google.
Dennis bet on trust and the seat at the table instead of binding oversight, and that bet crumbled on contact with reality.
Now he's proposing that the whole industry govern itself through a voluntary industry-funded body.
That bet is waiting to crumble once again.