California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed SB 1047, a landmark artificial intelligence (AI) safety bill meant to impose the first AI regulation in the United States, in late September. The bill drew opposition from tech giants in the homegrown industry.
“The outcome is not what we’d hoped for,” said Sneha Revanur ’26, founder and president of Encode Justice, a global youth movement for AI safety. Revanur has been advocating for the bill since it was first introduced by California Sen. Scott Wiener.
After tech companies like OpenAI expressed concern that the bill would hinder innovation, Newsom announced the state will instead partner with several AI experts, including computer science Professor Fei-Fei Li, considered the “godmother of AI,” to build AI “guardrails.”…