This is just Trust & Safety with an AI costume — same institutional capture playbook (embedded evaluators with board access, retaliation protections, "independent" bodies that inevitably get chosen by the same NGO/foundation network). The timing with Newsom's EO isn't coincidental; it's how you manufacture regulatory consensus, drop coordinated letter + executive action same day so it looks like inevitable momentum rather than lobbying.
Worth watching who funds the AI Evaluator Forum and whether these "evaluators" end up gatekeeping model releases the way T&S teams gatekept speech on social platforms.