California to enact AI safety rules on January 1: Here's what to know
December 22, 2025 • 2m 50s
Andrew Ross Sorkin (Anchor)
00:00.110
want
to
get
over
to
find
out
what
to
expect
in
the
new
year
when
states
actually
start
to
push
their
own
AI
regulations
forward
of
course
the
administration
trying
to
stop
this
from
happening
but
nonetheless
emily
wilkins
is
washington
DC
this
morning
to
join
us
with
more
on
Andrew Ross Sorkin (Anchor)
00:14.990
that
good
morning
Emily Wilkins (Washington Correspondent)
00:17.050
good
morning
andrew
yeah
look
major
AI
companies
they
are
preparing
for
a
california
law
on
AI
safety
to
begin
to
go
into
effect
on
january
first
this
seems
to
be
happening
regardless
of
course
what's
going
on
with
DC
let's
break
it
down
companies
with
revenues
of
over
five
Emily Wilkins (Washington Correspondent)
00:32.290
hundred
million
they
would
need
to
create
a
framework
showing
how
they
would
manage
severe
risks
for
their
most
powerful
models
could
pose
and
severe
risks
are
defined
as
causing
over
one
billion
dollars
in
damage
or
fifty
plus
deaths
or
serious
injuries
companies
would
also
Emily Wilkins (Washington Correspondent)
00:47.590
need
to
report
events
that
pose
major
risks
like
a
system
being
hacked
and
they
would
face
fines
of
up
to
one
million
if
they
failed
to
report
now
the
laws
implementation
of
course
as
you
mentioned
comes
as
president
trump
signed
an
executive
order
meant
to
discourage
state
AI
Emily Wilkins (Washington Correspondent)
01:03.070
laws
arguing
that
a
patchwork
of
laws
is
going
to
limit
AI
companies
ability
to
innovate
and
create
new
models
and
at
least
one
AI
company
though
anthropic
they've
already
released
their
compliance
framework
which
according
to
the
company
how
we
assess
and
mitigate
cyber
offense
Emily Wilkins (Washington Correspondent)
01:19.550
chemical
biological
radiological
and
nuclear
threats
as
well
as
the
risk
of
AI
sabotage
loss
of
control
for
our
frontier
models
again
those
are
the
most
powerful
models
they
have
in
california
bill
it
might
be
one
of
the
first
to
go
into
effect
on
these
frontier
models
but
it
is
Emily Wilkins (Washington Correspondent)
01:35.270
not
the
only
one
on
friday
new
york
governor
kathy
hochul
signed
an
even
stricter
bill
into
law
under
that
companies
would
have
only
three
days
to
report
critical
safety
incidents
and
if
they
failed
to
do
so
fines
would
begin
at
one
million
andrew
how
Andrew Ross Sorkin (Anchor)
01:52.380
do
you
see
this
playing
out
if
we
if
you
walk
through
twenty
twenty
six
what
do
you
what
do
you
see
as
sort
of
the
next
permutation
this
all
takes
Emily Wilkins (Washington Correspondent)
02:02.280
i
mean
i
think
the
big
question
right
now
is
that
trump
's
executive
order
basically
said
to
the
justice
department
that
they
could
sort
of
go
after
some
of
these
state
AI
laws
under
the
idea
that
they
were
interfering
with
interstate
commerce
so
i
think
it'll
be
really
Emily Wilkins (Washington Correspondent)
02:16.400
interesting
to
see
kind
of
what
the
trump
administration
does
once
california
's
AI
law
is
in
effect
is
there
a
challenge
is
there
a
lawsuit
what
is
the
outcome
of
that
and
then
what
does
that
mean
for
other
states
who
are
considering
similar
laws
i
mean
new
york
's
doesn't
go
Emily Wilkins (Washington Correspondent)
02:30.280
into
effect
forget
another
entire
calendar
year
so
they've
got
some
time
to
figure
out
exactly
how
to
implement
it
but
of
course
if
you
look
across
state
legislatures
there
are
a
bunch
of
other
states
that
are
trying
to
figure
out
how
they
handle
some
of
these
risks
because
Emily Wilkins (Washington Correspondent)
02:43.390
again
if
you
look
at
congress
there's
no
sign
at
this
point
that
there
is
any
sort
of
big
AI
law
coming
soon
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