Bri Treece

The lesson of the Hugging Face incident is not just that 700 AI agents went rogue. It's that the people who investigated afterward were there by invitation, on the company's terms, with no legal category that says who is qualified to do that work or what access they get. Yesterday California took the biggest step yet toward changing that and building the independent verification sector we need, and I'm excited to see it signed into law. Governor Newsom signed SB 813, which directs the state to designate independent verification organizations (IVOs), outside experts qualified to assess the risks of AI models. He also signed AB 1405, Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan's bill creating the state registry AI auditors (including IVOs) have to join before they can conduct an audit. OpenAI endorsed both bills. It would prefer independent technical assessments required at the federal level, where standards for who is qualified and what access they get could be set consistently. But absent federal action, it said, California can help set the rules of the road for a national system. A state can only do so much of that on its own. The FRONTIER Act, the bipartisan bill from @JayObernolte and @RepLoriTrahan, would do it nationally, licensing independent verifiers and requiring the largest developers to retain one with the access to do the work. Thank you to @SenMcNerney and @CAgovernor, and to @AndrewFATHOM, @deanwball and everyone at @Fathom_org, which sponsored the bill, for getting this over the line. There's a lot more to do, in other states and in Congress, and we'll keep at it. It’s critical that we start building an independent oversight ecosystem. buff.ly/V5hzUAo