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Senate Committee advances SB 53 to protect AI lab whistleblowers and create public compute
Summary
The state Senate committee voted to pass SB 53 as amended, a bill that would add whistleblower protections for employees at AI labs and create a publicly owned "Cal Compute" cloud to broaden access to AI research infrastructure.
Senator Scott Wiener, author of SB 53, asked the Committee on Governmental Organization to pass the bill as amended, saying the measure would protect whistleblowers at AI research labs and create a publicly owned cloud computing cluster called Cal Compute to expand access to AI infrastructure.
The bill matters because compute — specialized processing hardware — is concentrated in a few private companies, Senator Wiener and supporters said, and both safety oversight and equitable access to research tools are limited by that concentration. "Compute is the most…
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