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. https://t.co/GPvMNE99BF

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“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

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!!!

Californians fought all year for two bills that will help keep kids safe online. @GavinNewsom, I hope you'll sign them to hold big tech accountable: AB1064 protects kids from unsafe AI companions and AB56 requires warning labels on addictive social media platforms.

Governor Newsom at an event in NY: "And we have a bill -- forgive me, it's on my desk -- that we think strikes the right balance and we worked with industry, but we didn't submit to industry."

Testified for SB 53 in Sacramento today. 12-1 out of committee. To the floor!!

🚨 Breaking: A group of 100+ Nobel laureates, professors, whistleblowers, public figures, artists, and nonprofit organizations just released a letter asking OpenAI to tell the truth about its restructuring. Here’s what they had to say: 🧵

Earlier this year, Encode worked with @IFP on a proposal to direct @DARPA to invest in AI interpretability efforts. Today it passed committee as part of the defense spending bill! This comes on the heels of similar language being included in the @WhiteHouse's AI Action Plan.

Congrats @EncodeAction. You should be proud of the impact you've had! It has been an honor to work alongside you!

Watching us grow over the last few years has been nothing short of incredible. Grateful for the ride, and even more excited for what’s ahead. Happy 5th, Encode. 💙

Today’s a big day. We just turned 5! 5⃣🎂 In July 2020, we were scrappy high schoolers across Instagram group chats. Now, our young, fast-moving team is shaping how policymakers and the public navigate AI — in DC, SF, and beyond. In the last year alone, we’ve: ✅ Led historic