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Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models

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There is much to recommend these laws over the Nevada and Illinois bills I discussed above. Unlike those laws, SB 53 and RAISE are technically sophisticated, reflecting a clear understanding (for the most part) about what it is possible for AI develo... more Unverified source (2025)

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Mandate reporting of AI training runs above 10²⁶ FLOPs to a designated national or international authority

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I also did not like the compute threshold — which unfortunately we still have with SB 53, despite my best efforts. [...] I still think that compute thresholds are going to age really poorly, and we'll kick ourselves for having used them. AI Verified source (2025)

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States should retain the right to set stricter AI safety standards than the federal government

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You cannot preempt all of these [state AI] laws piece-by-piece; broad-based preemption of some kind is essential, and anyone who pretends otherwise is simply not engaging with the reality on the ground. AI Verified source (2026)

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