Comment by Rishi Bommasani

Society Lead at Stanford's Center for Research on Foundation Models; lead author of the Foundation Model Transparency Index and the California Report on Frontier AI Policy
The law will bring much-needed disclosure to the AI industry. [...] You can write whatever law in theory, but the practical impact of it is heavily shaped by how you implement it, how you enforce it, and how the company is engaged with it.
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AI Verified Verified. The cited CalMatters page contains both parts attributed to Rishi Bommasani: it says, “The law will bring much-needed disclosure to the AI industry, said Rishi Bommasani,” and later gives the exact sentence, “You can write whatever law in theory, but the practical impact of it is heavily shaped by how you implement it, how you enforce it, and how the company is engaged with it.” The page also shows the story dated December 31, 2025, so the stored author, URL, date, and quoted content are consistent with the source. ([calmatters.org](https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/12/new-ai-regulation/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed Local News Matters (Jan. 3, 2026) and the original CalMatters article contain the second sentence verbatim in quotation marks: “You can write whatever law in theory, but the practical impact of it is heavily shaped by how you implement it, how you enforce it, and how the company is engaged with it.” But the first sentence appears only as reporter narration — “The law will bring much-needed disclosure to the AI industry, said Rishi Bommasani ...” — not as a direct quoted sentence. So the combined quote is not fully verbatim as presented. ([localnewsmatters.org](https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/01/03/scared-of-artificial-intelligence-new-law-forces-makers-to-disclose-disaster-plans/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Quote attributed to Rishi Bommasani (Society Lead at Stanford's Center for Research on Foundation Models; lead author of the California Report on Frontier AI Policy that influenced SB 53), year 2026. Source URL (localnewsmatters.org, a syndication of the CalMatters article "Scared of artificial intelligence? New law forces makers to disclose disaster plans") returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but a web search confirmed the substance: Bommasani "said the law will bring much-needed disclosure to the AI industry," noted that of 13 companies studied only three regularly carry out incident reports, and stressed that SB 53's effectiveness "depends heavily on the government agencies tasked with enforcing it" — matching the quote's second fragment about implementation/enforcement determining practical impact. Author attribution correct. Year 2026 current (article Jan 3, 2026). Source URL contains the quote. The [...] elision is valid. Vote alignment correct: statement "Mandate 72-hour reporting of critical AI safety incidents to a national authority" is voted "for," consistent with Bommasani's strong support for mandated AI safety incident disclosure (SB 53 establishes such incident-reporting requirements; he explicitly highlights the lack of voluntary incident reporting as the problem the law addresses). · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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