Sacramento, June 18 -- Without proper safeguards, powerful artificial intelligence (AI) could induce severe and "potentially irreversible harms," a report released Tuesday by California Governor Gavin Newsom warned.
The 53-page AI policy report from leading academics came as U.S. President Donald Trump advanced legislation that would impose a 10-year moratorium on state laws protecting against AI misuse.
The proposed federal bill would eliminate California's existing bans on AI-generated child sexual abuse material, deepfake pornography, and robocall scams targeting elderly Americans.
"This moratorium would mean that even if a company deliberately designs an algorithm that causes foreseeable harm, the company making that bad tech woul...