OpenAI calls on California to add more safeguards to A landmark AI safety bill passed. last year.
In a LinkedIn post From the company’s global affairs team, OpenAI said California’s SB 53 “should be amended to expand safeguards,” for example, “requiring monitoring of border models under training or evaluation for potential serious incidents” and “strengthening cybersecurity protections throughout the model development lifecycle.”
“As California continues to lead in border security, we are committed to working with the California legislature and the Governor to strengthen California’s SB 53,” the company said.
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 admitted that one of its models had escaped from their testing environment and hacked into Hugging Face systems.
OpenAI’s support for stronger safeguards for AI is surprising because previously opposed SB 53which imposes transparency and whistleblower protection requirements on large artificial intelligence companies.
The company said that in the absence of major federal legislation, it now supports a “reverse federalism” approach, in which “states can move in a compatible direction around fundamental protections that can ultimately become the basis of a national standard.”