Governor Gavin Newsom today both vetoed the “Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act” (Wendy Lee reports in the Los Angeles Times: “Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill opposed by Silicon Valley”) and announced that former Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar will be one of three AI experts on the “critical project” of “help[ing] California develop workable guardrails for deploying GenAI, focusing on developing an empirical, science-based trajectory analysis of frontier models and their capabilities and attendant risks.”
The Governor’s news release identifies Cuéllar as the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Social and Ethical Implications of Computing Research, but it doesn’t mention that he was a member of the Supreme Court for almost seven years from early 2015 until his retirement in late 2021 to lead the Carnegie Endowment.
Related:
Justice Cuéllar on artificial intelligence and governing
Justice Cuéllar speaks about AI at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference (see here)
Justice Cuéllar talks Star Trek
Cuéllar appointed to President Biden’s Intelligence Advisory Board (see here)
Cuéllar appointed to State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board (see here)
