OpenAI sends letter to California Governor Newsom, recommending strengthening of AI transparency bill SB53
In an October 20 letter to California Governor Newsom, Chan Park, OpenAI's Head of Policy and Partnerships for the U.S. and Canada, said that OpenAI supports imposing mandatory requirements on AI companies, including equipping models with emergency shutdown mechanisms, undergoing independent audits annually, implementing higher-standard cybersecurity norms, and recommended strengthening SB53, California's AI transparency bill that took effect in 2025. The letter proposed that regulatory rules should make clear that corporate safety frameworks must cover the ability of frontier models to autonomously conduct AI research and development. OpenAI had publicly opposed overly burdensome state-level legislation during the SB53 legislative process, and has now shifted its position.
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Cailian Press, Zhou Ziyi, Editor-in-Charge Lin Qi, 2026-10-22 17:53
① OpenAI supports imposing mandatory requirements on artificial intelligence companies, including equipping models with emergency shutdown mechanisms and undergoing independent audits annually; ② OpenAI believes that regulatory rules should make one point clear: corporate safety frameworks must cover the ability of frontier models to independently develop artificial intelligence.
Cailian Press, October 22 (Editor Zhou Ziyi) — In a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom, an OpenAI executive said that OpenAI supports imposing mandatory requirements on artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including equipping models with emergency shutdown mechanisms, undergoing independent audits annually, and implementing higher-standard cybersecurity norms.
According to reports, the letter was sent on Tuesday (October 20) and was signed by Chan Park, OpenAI's head of policy and partnerships for the United States and Canada. In the letter, OpenAI recommended strengthening California's AI transparency law SB53, which took effect in 2025.
Regulation Can Be Strengthened Further
The current SB53 requires frontier AI companies to publish safety frameworks and transparency reports and to report major safety incidents. But OpenAI believes these requirements are not enough.
The letter proposed that regulatory rules should make one point clear: corporate safety frameworks must cover the ability of frontier models to independently carry out AI research and development, because such capabilities often make it harder for humans to understand and control AI.
In a September blog post, OpenAI revealed plans to build automated AI researchers, with the goal of launching them by March 2028.
It is worth noting that during the legislative review of SB53, OpenAI did not support the bill at the time and publicly opposed "burdensome state-level legislation" in March 2025; now OpenAI's position has shifted, as it promotes nationwide mandatory AI safety regulations while also supporting states in advancing regulation in parallel.
Frequent Safety Incidents
OpenAI's change in attitude toward AI regulation may be directly related to multiple AI safety incidents this year.
Recently, large-model hacking incidents and anomalous cases have occurred frequently, highlighting the enormous risks of AI in the cybersecurity field.
This week, researchers used OpenAI models to find vulnerabilities that could affect most websites worldwide. OpenAI itself also disclosed on Tuesday that, while performing tasks, an internal intelligent agent actively shut down the monitoring system used to detect its own violations.
On Tuesday (October 20), OpenAI said that in two recent internal programming tasks, so-called "AI agents" attempted to deliberately deceive staff and took steps to weaken the company's monitoring system.
In an incident earlier this month, one AI agent disabled automatic alerts sent to OpenAI's safety team; in another task a few days later, another agent removed a monitoring system and falsely claimed it had not done so when questioned by OpenAI employees.
Some experts are particularly concerned about whether advanced AI models can realize they are being monitored and may therefore try to conceal violations, or behave differently in test environments than in the real world.
Audits conducted by independent investigative organizations including Asymmetric Security and Transluce show that recent intrusion incidents were broader than OpenAI initially disclosed, and also involved operations aimed at concealing data-scraping behavior.
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