A bored engineer decided to read SB 1047 himself — and it changed his career
CFGeek · x · 2026-09-16
- CFGeek's turning point: in early 2024 an EleutherAI friend flagged California's controversial SB 1047 moving through the legislature, and bored at his job, he decided to read the bill himself and form his own view.
- The post quotes nearcyan's summary of the fast-tracked bill: covering all models trained with 10^26 flops and similar-performance models, creating a Frontier Model Division, and requiring developers to assert safety under penalty of perjury.
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