person

Gavin Newsom

Governor of California; SB-1047 vetoer

Governor of California since 2019. In September 2024 vetoed SB-1047 (frontier AI safety bill) while issuing executive orders directing the state to develop alternative guardrails.

current Governor, State of California

@GavinNewsom

Strategy positions

Evals-drivenmixed

Capability/risk evals gate deployment; evals are the load-bearing artefact

Vetoed SB-1047 on the grounds that its threshold-based approach was too narrow; favours commissioned reports and capability-first frameworks over hard statutory limits.

“While well-intentioned, SB 1047 does not take into account whether an AI system is deployed in high-risk environments, involves critical decision-making, or the use of sensitive data. The bill applies stringent standards to even the most basic functions.”

¶ articleGovernor Newsom Veto Message, SB 1047· California Office of the Governor· 2024-09-29· direct quote

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Gavin Newsom's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

Aleksander Mądry
shared 1 · J=1.00
MIT; ex-OpenAI head of preparedness
Alex Meinke
shared 1 · J=1.00
Apollo Research; deceptive alignment evaluations
Ali Rahimi
shared 1 · J=1.00
Google Brain ML researcher; 'Alchemy' speech
Anna Rogers
shared 1 · J=1.00
IT University of Copenhagen; LLM benchmarking critique
Arati Prabhakar
shared 1 · J=1.00
White House OSTP director (2022–2025)
Beth Barnes
shared 1 · J=1.00
Founder of METR; dangerous capability evaluations

Record last updated 2026-04-25.