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

And kind of just like felt very contrary to the founding charter of OpenAI.

And, you know, we had been raising some, making some noise about this for a couple of months.

And also, of course, we were in tandem advocating for this bill in California, you know, as Senate Bill 53, which OpenAI was not formally opposed to, but that we knew was actively lobbying against based on, based on our knowledge of sort of like some of the conversations they were having in Sacramento.

And so I think that there was that very interesting confluence of factors, both where the lawsuit was really coming to a head and it was this decisive stretch over late last summer, and the bill was also undergoing some pretty intense negotiations and it seemed as though it was all but poised to pass at this point.

and would soon be heading to the governor's desk and things were in a very critical moment for the bill.

And it was right then that my colleague, Nathan Calvin, as you said, pretty much had a sheriff's deputy show up to his house while he was having dinner with his wife and serve him the subpoena in real time.

And we were subpoenaed both via Nathan individually and also at our corporate address, which is nonstandard because it is very, very much nonstandard to serve

serve the general counsel individually.

You know, usually these notices are served only to the corporate address.

Yeah, I mean, overall, the biggest takeaway from the entire experience was like, damn, I guess we're kind of playing in the big leagues where, you know, for the first time we had all of this attention on us.

You know, Nathan Calvin's thread went viral on Twitter, you know, got 6 million views, you know, prompted.

Jason Kwan, who's a chief strategy officer and a very senior executive of OpenAI to publish a thread detailing OpenAI's response to this.

And it really felt like we were receiving all this support from different people, but also kind of all this attention and visibility that we had never gotten.

And I'm sure there are

a lot of people, you know, in the broader AI world who didn't know what encode was and kind of had their prior formed on us via this experience.

And so in that sense, it was definitely stressful.

It was definitely anxiety inducing, not just the experience of going forward about this publicly, but also the actual experience of getting subpoenaed, right?

Like this was taxing in a lot of ways.

We had to worry about, you know, our texts being accessed.

We had to worry about

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