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Today, we present to you Game Plan: your playbook to prepare for the AI economy. @PeteButtigieg has a few words:

Sneha is one of the smartest, hard working, and inspiring young people I’ve met recently. She and her awesome @EncodeAction team started this program to help young people figure out their career path in light of the massive shifts we’re seeing from AI…

.@PeteButtigieg says it’s time to game plan for an AI economy:

This could be the best or worst time ever to start a career. AI is now your coworker, competitor … and maybe even your replacement. Leaders have been fumbling for words on what’s next. Today, we offer Game Plan, your playbook to prepare for AI. 🧵

📸🇬🇧 Encode’s @_NathanCalvin in London at the Athens Roundtable on AI and the Rule of Law! At the event, Nathan discussed California’s new AI law and how our work in the U.S. fits within the global AI policy landscape.

NEW: We sent a letter to Congressional Armed Services leadership alongside @EncodeAction, ParentsRISE, and @ncypalliance urging them to reject AI preemption in a defense package. Over 2000 people signed on from all 50 states including youth advocates and survivor parents.

Kids and parents don't want the companies whose products have been ripping their families apart for a decade to get amnesty from AI regulation.

After seven years in the legislature, and a multi-year hiatus from this app, I’m preparing for the next chapter of my career as California Policy Director for @EncodeAction! (S/O @ChaseDiFelice for taking the time to make me sound way cooler than I actually am)

We disrupted a highly sophisticated AI-led espionage campaign. The attack targeted large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies. We assess with high confidence that the threat actor was a Chinese state-sponsored group.

When everything online feels synthetic, the most radical thing might be being real. Grateful to @TIME for including my thoughts on how AI’s flood of fake content could ironically bring us closer to one another. time.com/7326718/sora-2…

Read more here: time.com/7326718/sora-2…

“Every emotional moment becomes suspect ... It creates this low-level paranoia within people that kills the spontaneity and magic of social media.” Encode’s @KashyapRajesh14 in TIME this morning, on how AI-generated videos are disrupting our feeds:

Encode, the non-profit I founded, was recently subpoenaed by OpenAI. Here’s where I stand. First, I’m proud of @_NathanCalvin. He represented us with clarity and strength. And I’m grateful for all the support we’ve gotten, publicly and privately. People who vehemently opposed our other work went to bat for us here. Honestly, it was reasonable for OpenAI to have concerns about collusion. Elon - who doesn’t fund or direct Encode - is genuinely against them. And Encode - which has 3 full-time employees - went on to pass SB 53, the nation’s leading AI safety law. Influence comes with scrutiny … and it should! OpenAI could have stopped at asking us about Elon. This was his suit about their restructuring. But they also wanted all our messages about the unrelated SB 53, which they were lobbying against. Some people claim this is standard practice. But a subpoena this broad - targeting a non-profit that filed a public amicus brief and wasn’t a party - is anything but standard. It also was not standard to serve Nathan personally (on top of serving Encode), or to subpoena other critics that weren’t involved in the case. For us, this was taxing. Worrying about OpenAI accessing our texts made basic coordination hard when the stakes for our bill were highest. We fortunately had pro bono counsel, but otherwise, the legal fees could’ve been crushing. Consider how startups get torched by compliance that’s trivial for powerful companies. So maybe this is surprising: I still believe OpenAI wants to be a force for good. I often appreciate their people and work (I literally had GDPVal open when Nathan posted). I know their success is critical to American dominance in AI. And I think OpenAI can get criticized disproportionately, even when competitors move faster with fewer safeguards. It is only because I expected better that I am disappointed. Encode wants to be held to high standards. If you’re building AGI that will transform society, shouldn’t you welcome being held to high standards, too? Encode and OpenAI share the same interest: to ensure AGI benefits humanity. That requires independent voices speaking without fear, and companies hearing good-faith criticism as an opportunity. We remain committed to working with anyone pursuing this vision. That includes OpenAI.

One Tuesday night, as my wife and I sat down for dinner, a sheriff’s deputy knocked on the door to serve me a subpoena from OpenAI. I held back on talking about it because I didn't want to distract from SB 53, but Newsom just signed the bill so... here's what happened: 🧵

Went on tech crunch's podcast on startups today to talk about how SB 53 balances innovation/safety and what we SHOULD do to win the race with China.

🎉 SB 53, a first of its kind AI safety law applying to frontier AI developers, has officially been signed into law!!!

BREAKING: Governor @GavinNewsom just signed our groundbreaking AI bill, SB 53, to promote AI innovation (creating a public cloud called CalCompute), require transparency around AI lab safety practices & protect whistleblowers at AI labs who report risk of catastrophic harm. 🧵

SB 53 has been SIGNED into law!!!