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

conversations that you were having with legislators during the bill being leaked or sorts of things of that nature.

And so I think it was very concerning for us from an info security perspective what this might mean for the bill.

And we kind of had to take all of these measures that I think were totally unpredictable to us in advance of that.

And so I think in that sense, it was very stressful.

But in that sense, I think in another sense, it was also a really exciting validation of just like how far we'd come as an organization that we were kind of playing in the big leagues, had like visibility on our work for the first time.

And clearly, our work was being taken seriously by people in high places.

And yeah, I mean, going forward in terms of how this impacts, you know, how we'll operate, who we'll work with, I think that

Actually, our relationship with OpenAI has improved quite a bit.

I think that we remain super optimistic about, you know, new future avenues for cooperation.

I think the biggest thing that I remember from that was just like the outpouring of support from OpenAI employees who very clearly were sympathetic within code and wanted to support us.

And I think that, you know, consistently those relationships have been very positive for us.

I think that, honestly, what I really wanted in that moment was to make the public aware of this very specific incident that we were extremely concerned about.

Obviously, the potential use of intimidation tactics against advocates who were raising concerns about the restructuring.

Obviously...

well below the standards that OpenAI should be holding itself to, which I also said in the statement.

But I think that what I also wanted long term was to make sure that we could still work together down the line.

And this is a company that we are going to be running up against every single time we're advocating for a state bill, right?

This is a company where we're going to be encountering their lobbyists in Sacramento and Springfield and Albany and Washington.

And it's important for us to

have some inroads there.

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