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SB 1047 tries to prevent large AI models from being used to cause “critical harms” against humanity. The bill gives examples of “critical harms” as a bad actor using an AI model to create a weapon that results in mass casualties, or instructing one to orchestrate a cyberattack causing more than $500 million in damages (for comparison, the CrowdStrike outage is estimated to have caused upwards of $5 billion).

A growing chorus of Silicon Valley players oppose SB 1047. Fei-Fei Li, often called the godmother of AI, broke her silence on SB 1047 in early August, writing in a Fortune column that the bill will “harm our budding AI ecosystem.”

She joins influential AI academics such as fellow Stanford researcher Andrew Ng, who called the bill “an assault on open source” during a speech at a Y Combinator event in July. Open source models may create additional risk to their creators, since like any open software, they are more easily modified and deployed to arbitrary and potentially malicious purposes.

People can reduce their risk of age-related dementia by exercising their brains properly instead of Googling, according to a leading Canadian academic.

Professor Mohamed I. Elmasry says simple daily habits such as afternoon naps, memory ‘workouts’ and not reaching for a smartphone can increase the odds of healthy aging.

His new book, iMind: Artificial and Real Intelligence (with foreword by Canadian cell biologist Dr. Aileen Burford-Mason), says the focus has shifted too far away from RI (natural, or real) intelligence in favor of AI (machine, or artificial) intelligence. Elmasry instead calls us to nurture our human mind which, like smartphones, has ‘hardware’, ‘software’ and ‘apps’ but is many times more powerful – and will last much longer with the right care.

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