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

I mean, I think that obviously I don't want this to happen.

I like would, I would like love for our politics to operate in a way where it's not always responding to crisis.

But I think that, you know, a lot of people in the advocacy world seem to think that there could be some sort of warning shot that catalyzes a lot of political will, right?

Maybe this is a really disruptive cyber attack or something else.

Hopefully it's not a, you know, really bad bioweapon because that seems potentially a

cause just enough damage to wake people up, but, you know, not be entirely catastrophic.

And so I think that there's a sense that, you know, maybe there will be this moment where the Overton window totally just bursts open, because the way the government functions, especially the federal government, is it really responds in times of crisis, and oftentimes it

over anchors to whatever that specific kind of crisis is.

And so right now, what I feel really excited about is that post the announcement of Mythos, there is some broad sense of AI is actually a big deal.

We should think a lot about cyber, but it's very, very focused on cyber.

And there's potentially a bunch of low-hanging fruit for biopreparedness, which is also a threat factor that I'm extremely concerned about that people are not attempting just because

it's like not the thing that feels most salient to them right now um and so i think that it could be a warning shot hopefully it's not a super bad warning shot hopefully there's no warning shot at all and like we're just able to organically build this this political will over time um but i think that people tend to underestimate how much politics is like responsive to

Okay, moving on.

Oh my God, yeah, come join us.

I'm super excited about more people working on AI advocacy.

I think it's like one of the most under-resourced and talent-constrained ways to make AI go well.

And I'm really, really excited that I think post the success of the last couple of months, people have been...

taking AI advocacy more seriously and giving it its due.

I think there were a lot of people who potentially wrote this off after the SB 1047 veto who are now coming to realize that, again, it was only a matter of time.

Super excited about the space growing and having more awesome people to work with.

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