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Nathan Calvin

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As AI systems become more powerful and consequential, SB 53's requirements — greater transparency in safety practices and strong protections for AI whistleblowers — are critical to ensuring that safety is built into innovation from the very beginning, rather than treated as an afterthought.

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AI Verified The quote clearly supports whistleblower protections in the AI context, calling 'strong protections for AI whistleblowers' 'critical.' That directly implies support for granting such protections to AI safety researchers who act as whistleblowers. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Unverifiable The quote clearly supports 'strong protections for AI whistleblowers' as 'critical,' but it does not specifically say those protections should be granted to AI safety researchers. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified Verified: the official California State Senate press release dated September 29, 2025 contains this sentence and attributes it to Nathan Calvin. Your version matches the source aside from typographic punctuation normalization, such as the curly apostrophe in SB 53’s and em-dash spacing. ([sd11.senate.ca.gov](https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/governor-newsom-signs-senator-wieners-landmark-ai-law-set-commonsense-guardrails-boost)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

AI Verified Verified. Source URL (Senator Wiener's official sd11.senate.ca.gov page) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote verbatim and its attribution. Nathan Calvin, General Counsel (and VP of State Affairs) at Encode AI, stated: "As AI systems become more powerful and consequential, SB 53's requirements — greater transparency in safety practices and strong protections for AI whistleblowers — are critical to ensuring that safety is built into innovation from the very beginning, rather than treated as an afterthought." Correctly attributed; year 2025 is recent. Calvin is a leading SB 53 advocate (Encode worked on the bill). SB 53 includes mandatory critical-incident reporting. The vote "for" on statement #435 ("Mandate 72-hour reporting of critical AI safety incidents to a national authority") aligns with Calvin's strong support for AI safety transparency and reporting requirements. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 4mo ago

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Grant whistleblower protections to AI safety researchers

the whistleblower protections in this Bill are critically important [...]. SB 53 would ensure [...] protected from retaliation. This crucial measure will help keep Californians safe.

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