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I'm Rebecca Boulon, and this is the episode where we bring on industry experts to help us

explore a trend in the tech world and dive deep.

California just became the first state in the nation to require AI safety transparency from

the biggest labs like OpenAI and Anthropic after Governor Newsom signed into law SB53.

And it's already sparking debate about whether other states will follow.

To walk us through it, today we're joined by Adam Billen,

Vice President of Public Policy at Youth Lead Advocacy Group, NCODE AI.

Adam, welcome to the show.

Thanks so much, Rebecca.

It's great to be here.

So tell me a little bit about Enode AI and what your mission is and

when you were founded and what kind of things you're working on today. Yeah, so we've been around

for about five years. We were originally founded by our president, Sneha, in California. And for many

years, we're doing sort of public education workshops. We worked quite extensively in a couple states on facial recognition technology in schools, among other issues. And then over the last two years or so have sort of tilted very directly into advocacy. And so the first big bill we worked on was SB 1047, which was the AI safety bill in California last year that

was vetoed by Governor Newsom. But we also do work in Congress. And our sort of, I think,

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