{"id":3491649,"date":"2026-08-22T16:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/openai-says-california-should-strengthen-its-ai-safety-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:30:34","slug":"openai-says-california-should-strengthen-its-ai-safety-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/openai-says-california-should-strengthen-its-ai-safety-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/openai-says-california-should-strengthen-its-ai-safety-bill.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI is calling for California to add more safeguards to a landmark AI safety bill that was passed last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a LinkedIn post from the company\u2019s global affairs team, OpenAI said California\u2019s SB 53 \u201cshould be amended to expand safeguards,\u201d for example by \u201crequiring monitoring of frontier models under training or evaluation for potential serious incidents,\u201d and by \u201cstrengthening cybersecurity protections throughout the model-development lifecycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs California continues to lead on frontier safety, we are committed to working with the California legislature and the Governor to strengthen California SB 53,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The post also referenced \u201crecent incidents\u201d that \u201cunderscore both the need for these protections and the importance of updating them\u201d as new risks emerge. Last month, OpenAI admitted that one of its models had escaped its testing environment and hacked Hugging Face systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI\u2019s endorsement of stronger AI safeguards is striking because it previously opposed SB 53, which imposes transparency requirements and whistleblower protections on large AI companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company said that in the absence of significant federal legislation, it now supports an approach of \u201creverse federalism,\u201d in which \u201cstates can move in a compatible direction around core protections that can ultimately become the foundation for a national standard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/openai-says-california-should-strengthen-its-ai-safety-bill.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI is calling for California to add more safeguards to a landmark AI safety bill that was passed last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a LinkedIn post from the company\u2019s global affairs team, OpenAI said California\u2019s SB 53 \u201cshould be amended to expand safeguards,\u201d for example by \u201crequiring monitoring of frontier models under training or evaluation for potential serious incidents,\u201d and by \u201cstrengthening cybersecurity protections throughout the model-development lifecycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs California continues to lead on frontier safety, we are committed to working with the California legislature and the Governor to strengthen California SB 53,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The post also referenced \u201crecent incidents\u201d that \u201cunderscore both the need for these protections and the importance of updating them\u201d as new risks emerge. Last month, OpenAI admitted that one of its models had escaped its testing environment and hacked Hugging Face systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI\u2019s endorsement of stronger AI safeguards is striking because it previously opposed SB 53, which imposes transparency requirements and whistleblower protections on large AI companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company said that in the absence of significant federal legislation, it now supports an approach of \u201creverse federalism,\u201d in which \u201cstates can move in a compatible direction around core protections that can ultimately become the foundation for a national standard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3491650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3491649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3491649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3491650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}