Dean Ball says SB 1047 missed deployers and users, not just model developers
deanwball · x · 2026-07-23
Dean Ball argues that preventing catastrophic misuse is not solely the developer’s job, but that developers still bear part of the responsibility. He says model development has become more dangerous as models become more capable, citing the Hugging Face incident as evidence.
In the reply to Neil Chilson, he pushes back on the idea that SB 1047 was the right policy fix: in his view, the bill was poorly designed because it regulated model developers while leaving deployers and users untouched. He says developer liability can make sense for risks inherent to development or risks only addressable at that stage, but not for all downstream harms.
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