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US · StateCalifornia Legislature, 2025–26

California SB 53 — Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act

Requires large frontier developers to publish safety frameworks and report critical incidents. The transparency ask, adopted, one year after the liability version was vetoed.

Signed into lawas of 2025-09-29primary source ↗

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Wants more rules
OpenAIForEnact one federal frontier-transparency framework2023-05-16
Number one, I would form a new agency that licenses any effort above a certain scale of capabilities and can take that license away and ensure compliance with safety standards. Number two, I would create a set of safety standards focused on what you said in your third hypothesis as the dangerous capability evaluations.

Speaker: Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI. Third-party verbatim transcript.

IBMAgainstEnact one federal frontier-transparency framework2023-05-16
just come back to the question of, of whether we need an independent agency. I mean, I think we don't want to slow down regulation to address real risks right now. Right? So we have existing regulatory authorities in place who have been clear that they have the ability to regulate in their respective domains.

Speaker: Christina Montgomery, Chief Privacy & Trust Officer, IBM. Third-party verbatim transcript.

OpenAIAgainstEnact one federal frontier-transparency framework2025-05-08
I think that would be disastrous. I to give a more specific answer to your previous question, which I think touches on why it would be so bad, there are three key inputs to these AI systems.

Speaker: Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI. Third-party verbatim transcript; transcript's 'I to give' artifact preserved.

NetChoiceAgainstMandate published safety frameworks and incident reporting2025-06-18
The RAISE Act would create a legal minefield for New Yorkers trying to innovate by imposing vague, unworkable standards that punish developers instead of bad actors. This bill would stifle AI tech development, harm economic competitiveness and undermine free expression. NetChoice urges Governor Hochul to veto this misguided legislation and support a clear, national approach to AI governance
Computer & Communications Industry AssociationAgainstMandate published safety frameworks and incident reporting2025-07-10
While the code’s safety and security measures have been streamlined for greater clarity, they remain overly prescriptive and disproportionate – for example, with respect to external evaluations. Furthermore, key measures in the final code still go beyond the AI Act’s agreed scope and objectives, subjecting potential signatories to burdensome requirements.
MetaAgainstMandate published safety frameworks and incident reporting2025-07-18
Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI. We have carefully reviewed the European Commission's Code of Practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models and Meta won't be signing it. This Code introduces a number of legal uncertainties for model developers, as well as measures which go far beyond the scope of the AI Act.

Speaker: Joel Kaplan, Chief Global Affairs Officer, Meta.

GoogleForMandate published safety frameworks and incident reporting2025-07-30
We will join several other companies, including U.S. model providers, in signing the European Union’s General Purpose AI Code of Practice. We do so with the hope that this Code, as applied, will promote European citizens’ and businesses’ access to secure, first-rate AI tools as they become available.

Signing announced with stated reservations on copyright departures, approvals, and trade-secret exposure.

Wants fewer rules