Judge won’t pause California AI law as Elon Musk, xAI sue to block it
Elon Musk and xAI took a loss in court on Thursday in their effort to kill a California law regulating artificial intelligence.
A judge on Thursday denied the preliminary injunction requested by Musk’s scandal-plagued AI company as it seeks to stop a law that requires companies to reveal how they train their AI-based algorithms. The law went into effect in January, and xAI challenged on First and Fifth Amendment grounds, Ars Technica reported.
The company “argued the law violated its free-speech rights under the U.S. Constitution and would force the company to reveal trade secrets about how its AI models are trained,” Reuters reported. But the judge determined that xAI had not demonstrated its suit is likely to succeed at this stage. Therefore, the company’s lawsuit will continue, but xAI will have to comply with the law for the time being.
Ars Technica explained what the law actually does:
Ja’han Jones is an MS NOW opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut Blog.
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