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Under the bill, a federal judge, at the request of the Commerce Department, would only be able to block model release if there is imminent, foreseeable enumerated risk. A model reaches this threshold if it is believed to be able to cause more than $1 billion in damages or kill or seriously injure more than 50 people via a cyberattack, the model evading its developer’s controls or the creation or release of a biological weapon. ...
The risk language mirrors similar risk thresholds in SB 53, the California bill that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed into law last year, the RAISE Act, which Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) approved in December and Illinois’ SB 315 signed by Gov. JB Pritzker (D). Each of the bills built on one another, using similar verbiage. ...
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