CA ACR215: 23 Asilomar AI Principles.

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California's Assembly Concurrent Resolution 215 expresses the Legislature's support for the 23 Asilomar AI Principles as guiding values for the development of artificial intelligence and of related public policy. The principles, drafted at a January 2017 meeting of AI researchers and others in Asilomar, California, cover research issues, ethics and values (such as safety, failure transparency, personal privacy and human control) and longer-term issues (such as catastrophic risks and recursive self-improvement). Adopted by the Assembly June 25, 2018 and the Senate August 30, 2018; filed September 7, 2018 (Res. Chapter 206). A concurrent resolution does not change the law.

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What it means for business

No duties for businesses. The resolution endorses the Asilomar AI Principles as guiding values; it does not change the law.

Key provisions

1. 1Expresses the Legislature's support for the 23 Asilomar AI Principles as guiding values for the development of AI and of related public policy
2. 2Recites the principles, drafted in January 2017 by AI researchers, economists, legal scholars, ethicists and philosophers meeting in Asilomar, California, and endorsed by more than 1,200 AI researchers as of March 2018
3. 3Research issues: beneficial research goals, funding for research on beneficial use, science-policy exchange, a culture of cooperation, and avoiding a race that cuts corners on safety standards
4. 4Ethics and values include safety, failure and judicial transparency, responsibility, value alignment, personal privacy, shared benefit, human control, non-subversion, and avoiding an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons
5. 5Longer-term issues include: capability caution, planning for catastrophic or existential risks, strict safety and control measures for recursively self-improving AI, and developing superintelligence only for the common good
6. 6Adopted by the Assembly June 25, 2018 and the Senate (39-0) August 30, 2018; filed with the Secretary of State September 7, 2018 (Res. Chapter 206, Statutes of 2018); a concurrent resolution needs no Governor's signature and creates no legal duties

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Sep 7, 2018. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 206, Statutes of 2018.

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