Scott Wiener

With a technology as transformative as AI, we have a responsibility to support that innovation while putting in place commonsense guardrails to understand and reduce risk. With this law, California is stepping up, once again, as a global leader on bo... more Unverified source (2025)

performing a safety evaluation [...] massively powerful AI models before releasing them [...]. [...] test their large models for catastrophic safety risk. We’ve worked [...] with open source advocates [...]. Unverified source (2024)

Requiring companies get third-party safety audits by 2028.[...] “As AI technology continues its rapid improvement, it has the potential to provide massive benefits to humanity. We can support that innovation without compromising safety, and SB 1047 a... more Unverified source (2024)

The idea that the federal government would say or the Congress would say, 'We're not going to do anything about it, but you're not allowed to do anything about it either,' that is absurd, and it's actually outrageous. It shows that this administratio... more Unverified source (2026)

[...] the bill also provides critical protections to workers who need to sound the alarm if something goes wrong in developing these highly advanced systems, Unverified source (2025)

If you develop a model *today* [...] and that model causes harm of any scale, someone can try to sue you [...] potentially recover damages. Unverified source (2024)