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Assembly advances RAISE Act to require safety plans and reporting for the largest AI developers
Summary
The Assembly passed a narrowly tailored AI safety bill that requires very large model developers to prepare safety plans, disclose critical safety incidents to the attorney general and meet cybersecurity standards. The measure focuses on so-called frontier models and companies with very large training compute budgets.
The Assembly on June 13 approved the RAISE Act, legislation that requires very large artificial intelligence developers to adopt formal safety plans, disclose certain “critical safety incidents” to the state attorney general’s office and implement cybersecurity protections for frontier-scale models. Sponsor Assemblymember Jeff Boris said the measure targets a narrow set of companies and models and is meant to avoid a patchwork of state regulation while giving New Yorkers protections from the most extreme risks.
Under the bill, developers that meet the bill’s “large developer” threshold (explicitly tied to training compute spend on…
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