Sneha Revanur

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80,000 Hours Podcast · #246 – Sneha Revanur on how a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

Had no bill passed out of California, then maybe Congress would be like, oh, there is no political momentum behind AI safety.

we can come out here with like a really bad federal framework.

And, you know, maybe that framework would have been even worse than what you have right now in 53.

Maybe it wouldn't have covered internal deployments.

Maybe it would have been entirely voluntary, right?

There are like lots of ways in which this could have been worse.

And it's only because we have the leverage of like

oh, here, California gave us this actually pretty decent law, and New York gave us this pretty decent law, and now Illinois is moving the needle forward, that Congress now is incentivized to give us something even stronger than that, right?

And stakeholders who are against preemption are not going to come to the table unless we're getting something stronger than what already exists out of Congress.

And the only reason why we have that leverage in the negotiation is because we have these state laws that obviously set a really, really strong baseline.

Oh, totally.

Yeah.

I mean, this is the reason why we're fighting so hard on preemption, right, is because we don't want the easy way out of just codifying what we already have in California.

We think there is a lot of room for improvement.

We think that even from the Illinois bill that just passed, there's a lot of room for improvement.

We want a federal framework that builds upon what we've seen in the states and make sure that Casey, for example, is well-resourced.

There are several asks that we would have that go above and beyond what we've already seen in California and Illinois.

Yeah, I mean, that was a pretty crazy time in our lives, I can definitely say.

The context on this is last year, early 2025, ENCODE filed an amicus brief in the Musk versus Altman lawsuit surrounding the restructuring of OpenAI into a for-profit.

So yeah, we were among a chorus of voices that had a bunch of concerns about this and weren't certain that this would lead to the optimal outcome in terms of board governance or allocation to the OpenAI Foundation.

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