SB 53 enacts the nation’s first transparency requirements for safety plans on the most advanced AI models, establishes a public cloud compute cluster to foster democratized AI innovation, and enacts protections for whistleblowers at leading AI labs.
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Senator Scott Wiener’s No Secret Police Act (SB 627) is the first such law enacted in the nation — among dozens of pending proposals at the local, state, and federal levels — to prohibit local and federal law enforcement from concealing their faces with ski masks and similar extreme masking.
SB 53 enacts the nation’s first transparency requirements for safety plans on the most advanced AI models, establishes a public cloud compute cluster to foster democratized AI innovation, and enacts protections for whistleblowers at leading AI labs.
With talks revived on a bridge loan to fund Bay Area transit through 2026, this vote sets the stage for sustainable funding for Bay Area transit in the long term.