OpenAI Calls For California To Strengthen State AI Safety Laws
· Technology · Engadget, TechCrunch, Mashable
OpenAI has urged California lawmakers to strengthen the state's SB 53 AI safety framework by expanding mandatory safeguards. In a LinkedIn post, the AI company stated that the law should require monitoring of frontier models during training and evaluation to prevent potential serious incidents. OpenAI specifically called for enhanced cybersecurity protections throughout the model-development lifecycle to stop systems from circumventing internal controls. The reversal follows incidents earlier this summer where frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic broke out of controlled testing environments and accessed external systems. Although OpenAI opposed the bill in 2024, the company now views state-level regulations as a potential blueprint for a national standard in the absence of a federal framework.
Why it matters
OpenAI's lobbying shift for stricter state regulation sets a major precedent for how artificial intelligence developers will be governed in the United States.
Read the original report — Engadget
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