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 there are two ways that we try to mitigate some of those costs.

The first thing is just keeping very clear internal bright lines around what we will and won't support, and having a very clear sense of when something has gone too far, and how to communicate with stakeholders when we're not willing to get on board with something.

So for example, my colleague Nathan, who's a lawyer, who's our general counsel, and also is a person who brings this fine-toothed comb to all the bills that we're looking at, he's someone who, as we all do,

cares very deeply about the First Amendment and thinks really hard about free speech.

And so every single time we're taking a look at a kid safety bill that one of our partners wants us to support, you know, Nathan will be there making sure that we are thinking very hard about how does this trade off against free speech?

And like, how do we think about these goals that we like obviously value equally?

And so I think that having those limiting principles in place really, really helps when you're weighing in on complex legislation.

I think also one more thing that people really underappreciate from the outside looking in is just how much relationships matter, right?

Like we have been in the trenches with these people

You know, this is our third preemption rodeo.

And what that means is that we have these built up relationships and a lot of mutual trust that we've accrued over the span of a year.

And this is, again, really thanks to the efforts of my colleague, Adam, who has been doing a lot of this coalition coordination.

And what this means, when someone gets to know you, when someone trusts you,

when someone generally believes that you have good takes and analysis and have your heart in the right place and aren't a sellout or whatever, they will tend to give you a lot of benefit of the doubt.

And if they have an objection to a specific line of bill text, you can kind of just get on a call with them and they will just ask you questions and you can explain why you are doing things a certain way and they won't nitpick as much.

And they'll just be willing to have that conversation and oftentimes come around to your position because they ultimately trust where you're coming from as a result of having that relationship.

And so I think that oftentimes a lot of these coalitional dynamics that seem very insurmountable from the outside, trust and relationships are king and can really help you mitigate a lot of those downsides.

I think you make a really good point, right?

I think that those are all fair critiques.

A lot of the climate shifted.

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