Scott Wisor

Great meeting with @SenEdlyAllen and Steve Wimmer with the Transparency Coalition this morning as we work to get SB 315 across the line. Senator Edly-Allen’s legislation, which I’m chief cosponsoring, would create the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act.

Some personal news: I've started a new AI safety standards org, and our first two standards are out today. We're called Guidelight, co-founded with fellow ex-OpenAI safety researcher, Page Hedley. (1/n)

The first version of the RAISE Act required third party audits of AI frontier labs. But most industry players opposed and ultimately that provision fell out during negotiations. We always knew it was possible, and I'm glad to see we were right. The fight for AI safety continues.

This is actually a big deal. 3rd party audits were a huge industry sticking point against the NY RAISE Act last year. We thought these audits were doable then, and thrilled to see @OpenAI now come around and agree. Looking forward to passing my 3rd party audit bill in NY next!

.@RepLoriTrahan I grew up in your district. Everyone I talk to back home is against this. Replacing state laws by an unspecified federal standard would undermine the sovereignty of Massachusetts and every other state to protect its own citizens from the harms of AI.

I'm happy to see OpenAI endorse Illinois SB 315, which includes mandatory third party audits for frontier AI developers. Anthropic also supports the bill. Momentum for oversight on frontier AI is growing. I'll continue to work to strengthen the legislation and hope it passes.

OpenAI is endorsing Illinois bill SB 315, which requires safety reports (similar to laws in California and New York) and third party audits of AI labs. They say all of their state AI policy work these days is in the effort of creating a "consistent, nationwide framework."

That trendline on independents is eye-popping...

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perhaps for a moment I can be more direct, look straight into the camera and say to the stewards of the Pro-AI Party Line: You have resorted to AI slop to make your arguments. That means your views on AI are literally slop. Your. Views. Are. Slop. Everyone notices this. Those that don’t laugh at you publicly do so privately. Those who care too much to laugh merely sigh at the increasingly morose cocktail parties you fund. I know social media vibes are not the only thing in this world but stuff like working with this AI content farm, and the broader pattern of behavior that decision is reflective of, does tremendous disservice to the cause of accelerating and diffusing frontier artificial intelligence throughout the American economy. You began with a simplistic premise, over indexed on SB 1047-era AI politics, that the high-school-clique dichotomy would be the “e/accs” versus the “doomers.” Nobody cares about that premise in the real world. What’s more, you have taken this bad starting thesis and drawn epicycles (ask Grok!) upon epicycles around it, twisting yourself into a pretzel. AI Is So Important That We Must Destroy The Leading AI Company For Refusing To Be Dominated By Leviathan But Also So Unimportant That We Must Never Ever Regulate It Or Discuss Its Novel Risks While We Also Pat Ourselves On The Back For Selling Chips To China. A concept dungeon of your own creation, a jail cell— whose sole warden and key holder is you—whose bars you relentlessly bang on all day long. Let me summarize that for you: you, the “accelerationists,” are harming AI in most ways that matter, you are making it impossible to hold pro-AI views without seeming a shill, and you are committing political malpractice. Please re-examine your messaging and policy strategy, for the love of God.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Sincerely, More of a friend than you seem to realize

Imagine push journalism ...except all the "reporters" at this news site are AI bots. Even more embarrassing is the vibe coded website exposed all their internal APIs to the public, so this ended up easy to confirm. Possibly funded by the OpenAI-Andreessen-a16z super PAC... 🤔

If you had told me two years ago, when I was working with Senator Wiener on SB 1047, that someone would try to rewrite history to claim he was soft on AI regulation, I would have laughed in your face. But here we are. So let's get the facts straight. Scott Wiener wrote the bill the AI industry lobbied Congress to preempt. Senator Ted Cruz has publicly cited SB 1047 as one of the reasons motivating his push for federal preemption to block states from regulating AI. That is not the record of someone soft on the industry. A few more facts worth getting straight: • Senator Wiener introduced SB 1047 in February 2024. It set off a firestorm of debate and became the first major piece of AI safety legislation passed by a state legislature anywhere in the country before being vetoed by Governor Newsom. The Wikipedia page has a lengthy list of supporters and opponents if you're curious. You are free to criticize the bill. The idea that Wiener was too soft on industry in pushing it is not a serious claim. • After the veto, Governor Newsom convened an AI working group that included experts who had been critical of SB 1047's approach. They recommended a revised bill focused on transparency, incident reporting, and whistleblower protections, rather than mandated guardrails or expanded liability for misuse. • Senator Wiener incorporated those recommendations into SB 53 in July 2025. What followed were intense rounds of negotiations with powerful AI industry actors, particularly Google, Amazon, and Meta. (I remember this well, because during those negotiations I was personally subpoenaed by OpenAI for all my communications on SB 53.) • Politico reported, and I can confirm, that Senator Wiener negotiated fiercely over that summer, repeatedly threatening to walk and blow up negotiations if the bill was compromised. Yes, changes were made. SB 53 is both a landmark first-in-the-nation AI safety law and a bill that will need to be strengthened in future legislation. But the notion that Senator Wiener wanted those changes or supported the weakening is laughable. He pushed for the strongest bill that could still be signed into law. He did not want SB 53 vetoed the way SB 1047 was. • Your video conflates two different AI Super PACs. Leading the Future has been explicit about supporting federal preemption to remove state AI protections, and has aggressively attacked politicians like Alex Bores who support AI regulation. You can look at my feed to see what I think of them. Public First is a different PAC. It receives funding from Anthropic, among others. It was created specifically to counter Leading the Future, it has defended Alex Bores from LTF attacks, and it is fighting against AI preemption and supporting states in their efforts to enact AI protections. It is the PAC supporting Senator Wiener in this race.

 For what it's worth, I wish we didn't have Super PACs at all. But Public First, created in response to the enormous funding Leading the Future has spun up, is an important counterweight in the world as it is to support candidates with a track record of delivering on AI regulation and AI safety. Criticize Public First, SB 53, or anything else you want to. But this video is misleading, and it is insulting to those of us who spent years working with Senator Wiener to pass the first AI safety laws in the country against fierce industry opposition. Insofar as this was a genuine misunderstanding, I would appreciate you saying so directly.

Great and informative post, and it's great to see AVERI endorse HB 4705/SB 3261 in Illinois!

AVERI just published an analysis of audit-related legislation in the US. We survey the current landscape, discuss challenges with audit requirements and pathways for addressing them, and make our first endorsement of specific legislation.

We're proud to endorse the Illinois Artificial Intelligence Public Safety and Child Protection Transparency Act. DIFU coalition member and IL resident Kash wrote an op-ed in support of the bill!

I grew up on Zoom and social media. Protect Illinois kids, teens from the dangers of AI chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/20…

OpenAI is behind a new “parents and kids” coalition on AI safety legislation. Former members of the group told me they didn’t know until it launched.

Exciting news: RAISE Act chapter amendments just passed the Assembly nearly unanimously. They now head to the Governor's desk for final enactment as the strongest AI safety bill in the country. Thank you @agounardes for your partnership and Gov. @KathyHochul for signing this bill into law. New York has set the standard for common-sense AI safety legislation and offered a blueprint for our leaders in Washington to act. I'm running for Congress to get it done.