Alex "Sandy" Pentland
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Alex "Sandy" Pentland
@alex-pentland.bsky.social
Stanford HAI Fellow, Toshiba Professor MIT, Member US National Academies, UN Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data Board Member

Data & computational social scientist; human-centered AI; data privacy; Web3.0; resilient communities.
Dino Pedreschi, @lucapappalardo.bsky.social, Emanuele Ferragina, Fosca Giannotti, Alistair Knott, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Alessandro Vespignani, John Shawe-Taylor, Janos Kertesz, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Andrea Passarella, Yannis Ioannidis, Paul Lukowicz
May 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
See the full text of the bill here: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTe...
leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
April 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"By establishing a 'third-way' governing model, independent experts will be able to devise strong safety standards that also promote innovation while still being accountable to government leaders."
April 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A "first-of-its-kind AI governance framework that is both nimble and built upon proven regulatory models that will continue to spur innovation and incentivize AI platforms to comply with state-of-the-art requirements to identify, monitor, and mitigate known, foreseeable risks."
April 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We shared how "we believe that the framework outlined in this legislation is a novel and promising approach to ensuring that advanced AI systems can be an engine for innovation, while also ensuring that California can mitigate the risk of real world harm to persons and property."
April 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The bill will establish Multi-stakeholder Regulatory Organizations (MROs) within California; private, standards-setting bodies designed to provide legal and regulatory clarity, accountability, and agility in an era of exponential AI progress.
April 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
With Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Parliament of Finland; @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social , @cepr.org - Centre for Economic Policy Research; Paul Samson, CIGI; and Christian Kastrop, Global Solutions Initiative

Moderated by: Jeb Bell, PLI
March 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM