• Dan Hendrycks, an executive at Center for AI Safety — the firm whose lobbying arm helped draft the bill — co-founded a company called Gray Swan that offers AI safety compliance tools that seem positioned to provide the type of auditing data the bill would require; Gray Swan publicly launched on Tuesday

• The Center's lobbying arm was set up "partially" because Sen. Scott Wiener contacted them, "and we wanted to have a vehicle that could do more direct policy work," per the lobbying arm's senior policy counsel

• A close look into the people and entities who helped draft and advocate for California’s controversial AI safety bill (SB 1047) reveals that one of the bill’s co-sponsors could have a significant conflict of interest

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Dan Hendrycks is the Eecutive & Research Director at the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), whose lobbying arm co-sponsored California’s controversial AI safety bill. He also co-founded Gray Swan, a company that announced its public launch on Tuesday. The CAIS, which is closely associated with Effective Altruism — having received around $10m in grants from its philanthropy arm Open Philanthropy — believes AI poses a risk of human extinction, and Gray Swan is an AI safety compliance company.