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

which will just like really mess up the balance of power.

And I think there's already been some concern about this.

And I think this will potentially get substantially worse once we actually have much more powerful models and much more national security relevant models.

And so I think that one intervention that I'm really excited about is speeding up AI adoption among the judicial branch and the legislative branch to kind of counteract some of that balance of power issue and make sure that we don't have all of this power singularly concentrated in the hands of the executive.

Yeah, that's a great question.

I think that, I mean, obviously there's a context of SB 1047 where it wasn't even really proposing strict liability.

There are like so many ways in which that bill could have been substantially stronger.

There are so many ways in which that bill could have just been way more aggressive.

But even, you know, the like word liability being in the room, I think seems to be politically toxic and obviously incited a bunch of opposition.

We are, yeah, trying to think about how to tactically sequence liability

the things we're working on to build support over time.

One pipeline that has been incredibly effective from our perspective is you take something that a couple of labs are already voluntarily doing and you figure out how can we codify this into law and how can we use this to realign incentive and structures across the entire industry.

And, obviously, that works in cases where it's about, like, submitting, you know, a safety and security plan.

But, of course, it's entirely possible that, you know, by next year, by the year after that, you're going to have just, like, such high levels of risk that you need to do more aggressive things.

And we're going to be ready for that.

We're going to, like, see what needs to happen in that moment.

But I think that

Politics is really all about sequencing and coming out with the right things at the right time and knowing when you're actually making things worse by being too aggressive too soon.

And I think there's some story that SB 1047 might have had some of that effect.

So I think we're being really cautious about that going forward.

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