Overview

• Large frontier AI developers must publicly publish frameworks showing how they incorporate national, international, and industry-consensus standards.
• Developers must report critical safety incidents to the California Office of Emergency Services, with anonymized, aggregated annual reports beginning in 2027.
• SB 53 creates CalCompute within the Government Operations Agency to design a public computing cluster that supports safe, ethical AI research and deployment.
• The law strengthens protections for employees who disclose significant health and safety risks, and violations can draw civil penalties of up to $1 million enforceable by the Attorney General.
• Industry groups including the California Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Progress opposed the bill, arguing it forces work on hypothetical risks at the expense of addressing proven harms.