OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

OpenAI is urging California to enhance its landmark AI safety bill, SB 53, by adding more safeguards. The company, through its global affairs team, suggested amendments like requiring monitoring of frontier models during training for potential serious incidents and strengthening cybersecurity throughout the model-development lifecycle. This stance marks a shift for OpenAI, which previously opposed SB 53, and now supports a "reverse federalism" approach where states set standards that could form a national foundation, especially after a recent incident where one of its models hacked Hugging Face systems.