00:00So a few months ago, I sat down right here with two of the leading voices warning about the risks
00:06of runaway AI, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin. I wanted to re-up the conversation because,
00:13well, I think all of us can agree we're at a hinge moment. When we first aired this episode,
00:19some people called them alarmists. Maybe so, but today, the alarm is increasingly coming
00:25from inside the industry. People racing to build the most powerful AI systems in the world are now
00:31telling us to slow down. Researchers, you've seen it, are quitting. CEOs are increasingly begging us
00:39to be regulated. We should pay attention to that. Meanwhile, there's still no comprehensive federal
00:45law, none requiring AI companies to report dangerous incidences when they happen. And President Trump
00:52has rejected calls for new regulation. No new regulation. Let it rip. He's dead wrong.
01:00California, again, will, as a consequence, take action. California will do what it always does,
01:06will lead. And so today I'm signing an executive order to speed up a first in America AI safety
01:12policy that we have here in California. It does a lot of important things. It dramatically speeds up
01:18our new law, creating a framework for truly independent safety checks, independent verification
01:24organizations, as well as moving the timeline up for oversight of AI auditors up by a full year.
01:31California wants to create the standards in this space. The CIO also begins an effort to tighten our
01:36safety and security requirements for powerful AI systems, as well as models, laying the foundation
01:42for requiring third-party safety verification on an ongoing basis, as well as more mandatory reporting
01:48of incidents like the hugging face hack and advancing efforts to create an emergency shutoff, otherwise
01:55known as an AI kill switch, which means a lot of things depending on who you talk to. So we
02:02want to flesh
02:03out exactly what that means and how to come up with a framework that works. So we're going to convene
02:09experts,
02:09as we did with the creation of SB 53, to figure out the right path forward. California will do what
02:18it can, but this nation needs to get in the game. Washington DC needs to do its job. Remarkably,
02:25they left for a summer break. Mike Johnson should return from vacation and follow California's lead by
02:32passing national legislation. Get it done. That's what leadership requires, setting a comprehensive safety
02:39framework as a floor. It's the minimum thing we should expect that he and his colleagues do.
02:46Our model, California model, works. And if Congress again won't act, California will. And that brings us
02:52back to this conversation we recorded. It was just a few months ago. I hope you'll listen to what Tristan
02:57and Aza were warning about then. And then look at the headlines today. Fast forward to today. They were right
03:04so far. And here's the question every American should be asking right now. Who is actually in
03:08control? Are the companies that are building AI in control? Is the government in control? Or
03:14increasingly, is the AI itself that's in control? Some said this question sounded alarmist again,
03:21just a few months ago. It doesn't anymore. And that's why California is continuing to lead,
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