Comment by Tyler Johnston

Founder of the Midas Project, an AI safety watchdog nonprofit monitoring AI companies' compliance with safety commitments
especially embarrassing given how low the floor SB 53 sets is: basically just adopt a voluntary safety plan of your choice and communicate honestly about it, changing it as needed, but not violating or lying about it.
AI Verified source (Feb 10, 2026)
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AI Verified Fortune’s February 10, 2026 article at the provided URL contains the exact supplied sentence and attributes it to Tyler Johnston, identifying him there as the founder of Midas Project; the stored author, date, source URL, and quote text match the source. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/02/10/openai-violated-californias-ai-safety-law-gpt-5-3-codex-ai-model-watchdog-claims/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed The sentiment is real and is attributed in the Fortune article to Tyler Johnston, but the exact submitted wording is not what reliable sources show. Fortune’s article quotes Johnston as “especially embarrassing given how low the floor SB 53 sets is ...,” not “This is especially embarrassing ...”; a mirror of Johnston’s post also suggests “This seems especially embarrassing ...” with other wording differences. So this appears materially altered rather than verbatim. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/02/10/openai-violated-californias-ai-safety-law-gpt-5-3-codex-ai-model-watchdog-claims/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Quote attributed to Tyler Johnston (founder of the Midas Project, AI safety watchdog): "This is especially embarrassing given how low the floor SB 53 sets is: basically just adopt a voluntary safety plan of your choice and communicate honestly about it, changing it as needed, but not violating or lying about it." The Fortune source URL (2026-02-10, on OpenAI/GPT-5.3-Codex allegedly violating California's SB 53) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote verbatim from that exact Fortune article — Johnston characterized OpenAI's alleged SB 53 violation as "especially embarrassing given how low the floor SB 53 sets is: basically just adopt a voluntary safety plan of your choice and communicate honestly about it, changing it as needed, but not violating or lying about it." Author attribution correct (Midas Project founder/ED). Source is the primary Fortune article. Year 2026 correct and relevant. Vote alignment: Johnston is an AI safety advocate criticizing a lab for failing to honor even minimal safety/transparency requirements; this supports the "for" vote on "Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models." Verified. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 1mo ago
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