# Newsom Vetoes California's SB 1047 Frontier-AI Safety Bill

Date: 2024

On 29 September 2024 Governor [Gavin Newsom](/people/edu-gavin-newsom) vetoed SB 1047, Senator Scott Wiener's Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act, which would have imposed safety testing, shutdown capability and incident-reporting duties on developers of very large AI models. Newsom argued the bill's thresholds were not grounded in an empirical analysis of AI capabilities and could miss smaller but dangerous models, while signalling openness to future regulation. The veto reshaped the US debate on state AI rules and set the stage for the narrower SB 53 the following year.

## People

- Gavin Newsom: https://factrail.ai/people/gavin-newsom

## Drivers

- Digital-Rights and Platform-Power Regulation: https://factrail.ai/drivers/tech-digital-rights-regulation

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## Methodology

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