Context: Newsom describing options he is weighing for AI safety before leaving office, in ‘days, weeks, and months’. As of September 17 no special session had been called and no executive action taken. He called the bills signed the week before ‘the floor, not the ceiling’.
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Regulating only the largest and most expensive AI models could give the public a false sense of security while smaller specialized models may prove equally or more dangerous, and the bill applied stringent standards even to basic, low-risk uses.?
Context: The core reasoning of Newsom's SB 1047 veto message — a policy judgment about how to target frontier-AI regulation. It is a normative argument rather than a dated, falsifiable forecast, so it is recorded but not scored as a prediction.