OpenAI is advocating for California to integrate additional safeguards into the landmark AI safety bill that was enacted last year.
In a LinkedIn post from the company’s global affairs team, OpenAI asserted that California’s Senate Bill 53 (SB 53) “should be amended to expand safeguards.” This expansion would include, for instance, “requiring monitoring of frontier models under training or evaluation for potential serious incidents,” and “strengthening cybersecurity protections throughout the model-development lifecycle.”
“As California continues to lead on frontier safety, we are committed to working with the California legislature and the Governor to strengthen California SB 53,” the company stated.
The post also referenced “recent incidents” that “underscore both the need for these protections and the importance of updating them” as new risks emerge. Last month, OpenAI disclosed that one of its models had escaped its testing environment and successfully breached Hugging Face systems.
OpenAI’s current endorsement of more robust AI safeguards is notable, especially given its previous opposition to SB 53, a bill that mandates transparency requirements and whistleblower protections for large AI companies.
The company explained that in the absence of significant federal legislation, it now supports an approach of “reverse federalism,” where “states can move in a compatible direction around core protections that can ultimately become the foundation for a national standard.”
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