{"id":1318,"date":"2025-09-30T03:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/sb-53-the-landmark-ai-transparency-bill-is-now-law-in-california\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T03:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:01:43","slug":"sb-53-the-landmark-ai-transparency-bill-is-now-law-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/sb-53-the-landmark-ai-transparency-bill-is-now-law-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"SB 53, the landmark AI transparency bill, is now law in California"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate Bill 53, the landmark AI transparency bill that has divided AI companies and made headlines for months, is now officially law in California.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the \u201cTransparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act,\u201d which was authored by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-CA). It\u2019s the second draft<\/a> of such a bill, as Newsom vetoed the first version<\/a> \u2014 SB 1047 \u2014\u00a0last year due to concerns it was too strict and could stifle AI innovation in the state. It would have required all AI developers, especially makers of models with training costs of $100 million or more, to test for specific risks. After the veto, Newsom tasked AI researchers with coming up with an alternative<\/a>, which was published in the form of a 52-page report \u2014\u00a0and formed the basis of SB 53.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some of the researchers\u2019 recommendations made it into SB 53, like requiring large AI companies to reveal their safety and security processes, allowing for whistleblower protections for employees at AI companies, and sharing information directly with the public for transparency purposes. But some aspects didn\u2019t make it into the report \u2014 like third-party evaluations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As part of the bill, large AI developers will need to \u201cpublicly publish a framework on [their] website describing how the company has incorporated national standards, international standards, and industry-consensus best practices into its frontier AI framework,\u201d per a release<\/a>. Any large AI developer that makes an update to its safety and security protocol will also need to publish the update, and its reasoning for it, within 30 days. But it\u2019s worth noting this part isn\u2019t necessarily a win for AI whistleblowers and proponents of regulation. Many AI companies that lobby against regulation propose voluntary frameworks and best practices \u2014\u00a0which can be seen as guidelines rather than rules, with few, if any, penalties attached.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The bill does create a new way for both AI companies and members of the public to \u201creport potential critical safety incidents to California\u2019s Office of Emergency Services,\u201d per the release, and \u201cprotects whistleblowers who disclose significant health and safety risks posed by frontier models, and creates a civil penalty for noncompliance, enforceable by the Attorney General\u2019s office.\u201d The release also said that the California Department of Technology would recommend updates to the law every year \u201cbased on multistakeholder input, technological developments, and international standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

AI companies were divided on SB 53, though most were initially either publicly or privately against the bill, saying it would drive companies out of California. They knew the stakes: With nearly 40 million residents of California and a handful of AI hubs, the state has outsized influence on the AI industry and how it will be regulated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

SB 53 had been publicly endorsed by Anthropic<\/a> after weeks of negotiations on the bill\u2019s wording, but Meta in August launched a state-level super PAC<\/a> to help shape AI legislation in California. And OpenAI had lobbied against such legislation in August, with its chief global affairs officer, Chris Lehane, writing to Newsom<\/a> that \u201cCalifornia\u2019s leadership in technology regulation is most effective when it complements effective global and federal safety ecosystems.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lehane suggested that AI companies should be able to get around California state requirements by signing onto federal or global agreements instead, writing, \u201cIn order to make California a leader in global, national and state-level AI policy, we encourage the state to consider frontier model developers compliant with its state requirements when they sign onto a parallel regulatory framework like the [EU Code of Practice] or enter into a safety-oriented agreement with a relevant US federal government agency.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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