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Newsom signs executive order to study uses, risks of generative AI in California
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed an executive order Wednesday directing the state to study the potential uses and risks of generative artificial intelligence (AI) — a subset of AI, like ChatGPT — that generates novel text, images and other content.
“This is a potentially transformative technology — comparable to the advent of the internet — and we’re only scratching the surface of understanding what [generative AI] is capable of,” Newsom said in a statement.
“We recognize both the potential benefits and risks these tools enable,” the governor added. “We’re neither frozen by the fears nor hypnotized by the upside. We’re taking a clear-eyed, humble approach to this world-changing technology.”
Newsom’s executive order directs state agencies and departments to draft a report examining potential beneficial uses of generative AI tools, as well as their potential risks, within the next two months.
The California Cybersecurity Integration Center and California State Threat Assessment Center are also meant to perform a joint risk analysis focusing specifically on potential threats to the state’s critical energy infrastructure from the use of generative AI by next March.
Newsom directed several state agencies and departments to issue guidelines for adopting and using generative AI in the public sector by January and to develop recommendations for evaluating the impact of such tools on vulnerable communities by next July.
By next March, the California Department of Technology is meant to establish infrastructure for conducting generative AI pilot projects, which all state agencies will start considering by next July.
Newsom also wants to establish formal partnerships with leading generative AI research institutions in the state, including UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society and Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.
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An earthquake shook along the Southern California coast Friday afternoon.
The earthquake reportedly occurred in Malibu, west of Los Angeles, at 2:15 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The temblor, which was recorded at a depth of nearly 6 miles, measured a preliminary magnitude of 3.5.
It was not immediately clear if there was any damage.
An atmospheric river dumping rain across Northern California and several feet of snow in the Sierras was making its way across the state Friday, bringing flooding and threatening mudslides along with it.
The storm, the first big one of the season, moved over California as a bomb cyclone, a description of how it rapidly intensified before making its way onshore.
On Thursday, rain poured across the northern edge of the state, slowly moving south. It rained 3.66 inches in Ukiah on Thursday, breaking the record for the city set in 1977 by a half-inch. Santa Rosa Airport saw 4.93 inches of rain on Thursday, shattering the daily record set in 2001 of 0.93 inches.
More rain is due Friday.
Cars are covered in snow during a storm in Soda Springs.
(Brooke Hess-Homeier / Associated Press)
“Prolonged rainfall will result in an increased risk of flooding, an increased risk of landslides, and downed trees and power lines across the North Bay,” the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office wrote in a Friday morning forecast.
After its initial peak, the system is expected to linger into the weekend, with a second wave of rainfall extending farther south across most of the San Francisco Bay Area, down into the Central Coast and possibly reaching parts of Southern California.
On Saturday, Los Angeles and Ventura counties could see anywhere from a tenth to a third of an inch of rain. San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties could see up to an inch in some areas.
A second round of rain expected to begin Sunday could be “a little stronger than the first but still likely in the ‘beneficial rain’ category,” the National Weather Service said in its latest L.A. forecast.
Chances are low of flooding or any other significant issues in Southern California, forecasters said, though roads could be slick and snarl traffic.
Staff writer Grace Toohey contributed to this report.
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