News Summary

• California Gov.
• Gavin Newsom signed SB 53 into law this week.
• The bill requires large AI labs to be transparent about their safety and security protocols.
• Adam Billen, vice president of public policy at youth-led advocacy group Encode AI, says policy can enforce companies’ existing safety promises.
• Billen also anticipates a forthcoming bill establishing a federal AI standard that would be pitched as a middle-ground solution but would in reality override state laws.
• He warned that narrowly scoped federal AI legislation could “delete federalism for the most important technology of our time”