An AI-regulation bill sits on Governor Gavin Newsom's desk awaiting potential passage into law, but ... [ ] it fails to clearly define AI. Technology greatly needs oversight in certain arenas, but we should never regulate on the amorphous term “AI.”

How can you regulate something if you can't even define it?

California is on the brink of passing an AI-regulation bill. But even as SB 1047 sits on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk awaiting potential passage into law, it fails to clearly define the very thing it is about, artificial intelligence. No law can be efficacious if its writing addresses only an amorphous idea, including this one.

Controversy abounds around this bill, but mostly for other reasons. Industry leader Andrew Ng argues that the bill “makes the fundamental mistake of regulating a general purpose technology rather than applications of that technology.” Former Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly points out that it is both “too broad and too narrow in a number of different ways.” Stability AI's Ben Brooks........

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