Today’s report on AI Governance in CA builds on the urgent conversations around AI governance we began in the Legislature last year. I thank Fei-Fei Li, Jennifer Chayes, and Tino Cuellar for the hard work and keen insight they provide in this urgent report.

Millions of students know about AI-generated explicit images of classmates circulating at school—but only a few cases make the news. At Encode, we built a deepfake incident tracker so students can report these incidents anonymously to help illuminate the issue and drive changes

amazing work from katherine on this

By default, AI will replace all of us in the economy, creating a new social contract where powerful actors won't have to care about regular people. Rudolf Laine and I have written an essay series called The Intelligence Curse in which we outline the problem and how to solve it 🧵

“Cruz put an unbelievable amount of muscle into this bill,” says Sunny Gandhi, vice president of political affairs at Encode, an AI-focused advocacy group that supported the bill. “They spent a lot of effort wrangling a lot of the companies to make sure that they wouldn't be

🚨 NEW TOOL FROM IFP: The White House asked for input on its AI Action Plan & was flooded with >10,000 responses. To help, we built aiactionplan.org — a searchable database of what America thinks the gov't should do on AI. Naturally, we used AI to make it... 🧵 (1/10)

🚨 BREAKING: 40 bipartisan state AGs just delivered a powerful message to Congressional leadership: The proposed 10-year moratorium on state AI regulations would strip away critical consumer protections with NO federal alternative in place.

Honored to be at the White House for President Donald J. Trump signing the TAKE IT DOWN Act! First major piece of tech legislation in over a decade 🇺🇸

Pretty sweet moment watching the bill we spent the last year on get signed into law in the rose garden 😁 Lucky to have met and worked with so many amazing advocates!!

When AGI arrives, your job could be on the chopping block. What happens next will shape the course of (human) history, writes Luke Drago and Rudolf Laine time.com/7289692/when-a…

I looked at the evidence that AI is replacing entry-level workers in white collar jobs. Bottom line: the scale/timing of job loss is uncertain, but this is not just hype. Companies are really doing it. nytimes.com/2025/05/30/tec…

.Sen. Marsha Blackburn before voting to strike the AI moratorium: “What we know is this: this body has proven that they cannot legislate on emerging technology…but you know who has passed [worthy AI legislation]? IT IS OUR STATES”

The AI Moratorium has been stripped out of the Big Beautiful Bill in an overwhelming 99-1 vote. We thank Senator Sen. Marsha Blackburn, kids online safety advocates, civil society organizations, and hundreds of grassroots volunteers that came together to stop this.

We stopped Big Tech's biggest power grab in years. 40 state AGs, 14 governors, 260 state lawmakers from all 50 states, 150+ orgs, and Congressional members from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 all said no to the state AI moratorium. Polling showed Americans opposed it 3-to-1. Victory! 🇺🇸

it blows my mind that our DC team was so crucial to making this happen. just last week it seemed like we were clearly doomed insane fighters Sunny Gandhi Adam Billen Nathan Calvin

Exciting new endorsement for SB 53 -- thank you Geoff Ralston!

Today’s a big day. We just turned 5! 5⃣🎂 In July 2020, we were scrappy high schoolers across Instagram group chats. Now, our young, fast-moving team is shaping how policymakers and the public navigate AI — in DC, SF, and beyond. In the last year alone, we’ve: ✅ Led historic

Earlier this year, Encode worked with IFP on a proposal to direct DARPA to invest in AI interpretability efforts. Today it passed committee as part of the defense spending bill! This comes on the heels of similar language being included in the The White House's AI Action Plan.

Proud that Encode helped organize this letter