person

Scott Wiener

California State Senator; SB-1047 author

California State Senator (D-San Francisco) who authored SB-1047, the 2024 'Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier AI Models Act' that became the most-debated state-level frontier-AI safety legislation. Vetoed by Governor Newsom on 29 September 2024.

current Senator (D-San Francisco), California State Senate

homepage @Scott_Wiener

Strategy positions

Governance firstendorses

Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimes

Argues frontier AI labs must be required by law to test for and disclose catastrophic capabilities before deployment; SB-1047 was the first U.S. state attempt to codify this.

“Innovation and safety are not in conflict. SB 1047 will help spur AI innovation by giving developers the certainty they need.”

¶ articleSenator Wiener's AI Safety Bill SB 1047 Passes Assembly· California State Senate· 2024-08-29· direct quote

Closest strategy neighbours

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

Abeba Birhane
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Mozilla Foundation senior advisor; AI ethics researcher
Adam Tooze
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Columbia historian; Chartbook newsletter
Adrian Weller
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Cambridge professor; Alan Turing Institute fellow
Adrienne LaFrance
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The Atlantic executive editor; technology critic
Adrienne Williams
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Former Amazon warehouse worker; AI labour activist
Akash Wasil
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Encode Justice; AI policy advocate

Record last updated 2026-04-25.