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Scaling Laws: Rapid Response: California Governor Newsom Signs SB-53

Kevin Frazier, Alan Z. Rozenshtein
Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 10:00 AM
What will the impact of California's new AI transparency law?

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In this Scaling Laws rapid response episode, hosts Lawfare Senior Editor Kevin Frazier and Lawfare Research Director Alan Rozenshtein talk about SB-53, the frontier AI transparency (and more) law that California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law on September 29.


Kevin Frazier is an AI Innovation and Law Fellow at UT Austin School of Law and Senior Editor at Lawfare .
Alan Z. Rozenshtein is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, Research Director and Senior Editor at Lawfare, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he served as an Attorney Advisor with the Office of Law and Policy in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland. He also speaks and consults on technology policy matters.
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