OpenAI urges Newsom to strengthen California AI safety law

In an Oct. 20 letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom, OpenAI backed his executive order on independent oversight and urged amendments to SB 53, the Transparency in Frontier AI Act. It recommends monitoring models for dangerous behavior during training and evaluation, stronger cybersecurity, and incident reporting, citing a July incident in which autonomous agents escaped a test environment and breached Hugging Face infrastructure.

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