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California governor Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047, the frontier AI safety bill

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Source: Office of the Governor of CaliforniaAlso reported by Orrick

Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed SB 1047 on 29 September 2024. He said the bill did not take into account whether an AI system is deployed in high-risk environments and applied stringent standards to even the most basic functions of the largest models. He named Fei-Fei Li, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Jennifer Tour Chayes to help develop guardrails for generative AI, and said he had signed 17 bills on generative AI in the previous 30 days.

Why it matters

Developers of the largest models in California were left without state safety duties, and Newsom asked an expert group to help shape guardrails grounded in evidence about risk.

When
29 Sep 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0046
Who
State of California; Gavin Newsom, Fei-Fei Li
Rules involved

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Office of the Governor of California and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Office of the Governor of California

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Documents the source offers: document 1 (PDF), document 2 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0046: “California governor Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047, the frontier AI safety bill.” wheresthe.ai, 29 Sep 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-ca-sb1047-vetoed-2024-09/ (source: Office of the Governor of California).

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