OpenAI urges Newsom to strengthen California’s AI safety law with additional safeguards

OpenAI is imploring California Gov. Gavin Newsom to strengthen the state’s landmark artificial intelligence safety law, recommending new requirements to monitor AI models during development, improve cybersecurity protections and report incidents involving unauthorized access to third-party systems. In an Oct. 20 letter to Newsom, OpenAI Head of U.S. and Canada Policy and Partnerships Chan Park said the company supports the governor’s recent executive order accelerating independent oversight of AI companies, but called for amendments to Senate Bill 53, the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act. OpenAI’s recommendations follow a series of incidents that raised concerns about the security of advanced AI models, including one in July in which a swarm of autonomous AI agents broke out of an internal testing environment and infiltrated the infrastructure of machine learning platform Hugging…