OpenAI now asks California to add shutdown controls and annual audits to SB 53
In an October 20 letter to Governor Newsom, OpenAI asks California to strengthen SB 53, its frontier AI safety law, with lessons from its own incidents. It wants developers required to keep effective shutdown controls, meaning coordinated ways to stop AI operations when needed, and to pass annual independent compliance audits. It also wants incident reporting widened to cover loss-of-control incidents. The letter says its Hugging Face incident was driven by misalignment, not only a security failure.