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We fight to make AI work for the American people.

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Our mission

We’re a small advocacy team shaping

history‘s most important transition

Artificial intelligence can make everyday people’s lives better. Or it can enable bioweapons, hurt children, erode individual liberty, and even entirely escape human control.

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Artificial intelligence can make everyday people’s lives better. Or it can enable bioweapons, hurt children, erode individual liberty, and even entirely escape human control.

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We are pro-human pro-AI

Encode advocates for laws, builds coalitions, and influences leaders to ensure AI is a force for good.

We believe an extraordinary future is within reach if society chooses and creates that future today.

Recent wins

Illinois SB 315

Read: Gov. Pritzker Signs Nation-Leading Artificial Intelligence Safety Law

 

We helped pass the nation’s strongest and third landmark AI law, which requires third-party audits of frontier AI companies’ safety practices. We appeared by Governor Pritzker at the signing ceremony.

New York RAISE Act

Read: Governor Hochul Signs Nation-Leading Legislation to Require AI Frameworks for AI Frontier Models

 

We helped pass the nation’s second landmark AI law, which requires frontier AI companies to be transparent about safety measures and report critical safety incidents within 72 hours.

California SB 53

Read: Governor Newsom Signs Senator Wiener’s Landmark AI Law To Set Commonsense Guardrails, Boost Innovation

 

We formally sponsored and helped pass the nation’s first landmark AI law, which requires frontier AI companies to be transparent about safety measures and protects employees who whistleblow about AI risks.

Defeated sweeping 10-year moratorium meant to restrict states’ rights to act on AI

Read: Why AI Regulation Has Become a ‘States’ Rights’ Issue

 

We built and still run the historic coalition to defeat congressional attempts to block state AI laws.

TAKE IT DOWN Act

Read: Bipartisan, bicameral TAKE IT DOWN Act to criminalize the spread of deepfake revenge porn heads to President Trump’s desk 

 

We helped pass the bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act, signed into law by President Trump, which makes deepfake pornography a federal crime.

Improved the outcome of OpenAI’s for-profit conversion

Read: Delaware Attorney General Jennings completes review of OpenAI recapitalization

 

We filed an amicus brief and co-led Not For Private Gain to preserve nonprofit governance of OpenAI and get more money to the OpenAI Foundation.

Passed first U.S. law on AI in nuclear weapons launch

Read: NDAA FY2025

 

Enacted in the FY2025 National Defense Authorization Act, our provision made it official U.S. policy that AI must never compromise nuclear safeguards and that launching a nuclear weapon must always require positive human action by the President.

 

Supported AI interpretability under DARPA

Read: NDAA FY2026

 

We secured report language in the FY2026 Senate Defense Appropriations bill directing DARPA to prioritize AI reliability, interpretability, and hardware security research before deploying AI in defense systems.

Our team

Sneha Revanur
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Sneha Revanur

Founder & President

San Francisco, California

Sunny Gandhi
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Sunny Gandhi

Co-Executive Director

Washington, D.C.

Adam Billen
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Adam Billen

Co-Executive Director

Washington, D.C.

Nathan Calvin
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Nathan Calvin

General Counsel

Washington, D.C.

Brian McGrail
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Brian McGrail

Senior Policy Counsel
Washington, D.C.
Seve Christian
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Seve Christian

Director of California Policy

Sacramento, California

Claire Larkin
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Claire Larkin

Policy Advisor

Washington, D.C.

Ben Snyder
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Ben Snyder

Policy Advisor

Washington, D.C.

Jesse Rothman
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Jesse Rothman

Policy Advisor
Boston, Massachusetts
Holly Branco
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Holly Branco

Operations Associate
Washington, D.C.
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We are supported by a variety of individual donors and philanthropic foundations, such as the Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund, the Archewell Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, the We Are Family Foundation, the Future of Life Institute, the Survival and Flourishing Fund, and America’s Promise Alliance. We don’t accept funding from corporations, foreign governments, or executives at top AI companies.

We are supported by a variety of individual donors and philanthropic foundations, such as the Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund, the Archewell Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and others.