Thomas Woodside (Secure AI Project): What SB 53 Actually Does and What Comes Next in AI Policy

Thomas Woodside (Co-Founder & Senior Policy Advisor at the Secure AI Project, and a lead advocate for California’s SB 53) joins The Intelligence Horizon Podcast to break down what SB 53 actually does and what it signals about where AI regulation is headed. We cover the bill’s core requirements, the logic behind them, and how they aim to reduce catastrophic risk from frontier models. We also situate SB 53 in the broader policy landscape, compare it to SB 1047, and discuss what Thomas thinks the next concrete governance steps should be as AI capabilities continue to scale.

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