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

the risks that might emerge from internal deployments and sort of the lack of transparency around that by default, especially because at this point, the most capable models that exist aren't available to the public and aren't externally deployed, right?

Because the law actually creates this secure reporting channel to the California government where lab employees can raise the alarm about risks from internal deployments, that is not a thing that exists before.

And that is like

primarily the result of us really negotiating really hard, being in the room during those conversations, pushing back against industry that wanted to remove that aspect of the bill.

And so I think that, you know, having people who are high context advocates really matters.

And, you know, that to me seems to move the needle.

So yeah, maybe you would have gotten some kind of bill passed, but it would have maybe been different in a lot of like very fundamental ways from what we eventually got.

And I'm very proud through this entire process of the outcome that we accomplished with the final version of SE53.

Yeah, I mean, the fact that California didn't pass third-party audits clearly didn't stop Illinois from just passing third-party audits yesterday, right?

And so I think that the standard can totally keep raising.

And in fact, actually what happens in practice is that once one state does something,

there is some second mover advantage, right, where other states feel a lot more comfortable following suit.

And they've seen how, you know, this other governor, for example, has gotten a bunch of credit for citing a really important AI law.

Or this other legislature has, you know, gone through this entire process and, like, weathered the storm of all of the AI law being come out with this very strong piece of legislation.

And I think that, like, there obviously is this

dynamic at play where states feel a lot more comfortable doing this when there are role models to follow.

And so I actually think that our job was easier in New York and our job has been easier in Illinois because of the work that happened in California.

And now we have a standard that is meaningfully higher than what we had in California as a result of the Illinois third party auditing bill being passed by the legislature.

I think that also when it comes to Congress, it's totally possible that had no bill passed in California,

And to be clear, I think that SB 53 probably is the strongest possible thing that could have passed at that particular time and that would have been signed by the governor at that particular time.

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