2025-10-11
Good thread from Nathan. I want to highlight again the utter insanity that @OpenAI — an org that would be regulated by SB 53 — attempted to interfere in the leg process not by engaging, but by subpoenaing an advocacy org for their private communications with legislators.
Fortune
Nathan Calvin, general counsel of AI safety nonprofit Encode, says OpenAI used intimidation tactics to undermine California's SB 53 while it was being debated
one which buried that the recipient, the GC of a company who Amicus-ed us, received a broad subpoena with advance notice— was not the way. @lessig : This is awful. Aggressive lawye...