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New York RAISE Act: Responsible AI Safety and Education Act
Deadline-ready summary derived from the Policy Window catalog. Every claim cites a primary source. As of 2026-06-30.
Key finding
Editorial summary pending editorial backfill (on the roadmap; see /wiki/roadmap). For now, see the full article lead paragraph.
Pull quote (operative text)
Verbatim pull quote pending editorial backfill (on the roadmap; see /wiki/roadmap) (Coverage Games provision-anchor pass). Use the primary source URL in the infobox of the full article to pull a verbatim excerpt under the article's reporting deadline.
Topics this instrument addresses
- governsFoundation Models / GPAI— N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) defines 'frontier model' (>10^26 FLOP, >$100M compute) + § 1421 imposes operative pre-deployment duties on large frontier-model developers
- governsTransparency Obligations— N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 1421(1)(C) — a large developer must conspicuously publish (with appropriate redactions) its written safety and security protocol and transmit a copy to the attorney general
- governsCatastrophic & Existential Risk— N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 1421(1) requires a large developer to implement and conspicuously publish a written safety and security protocol governing the risk of 'critical harm' from its frontier models, and § 1421(4) requires disclosure of safety incidents within 72 hours; § 1420(7) defines critical harm (100+ deaths/serious injuries or $1B damage via CBRN weapons or autonomous model conduct). NOTE: the floor-text § 1421(2) deployment PROHIBITION was struck by the chapter amendment enacted Mar. 27, 2026 (S8828/A9449), which reoriented the Act to a transparency-and-reporting regime; this cell tracks the RETAINED safety-protocol + incident-reporting duties, not a deployment ban.
- implicitCompute-Threshold Reporting— N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6),(9) — the frontier-model / large-developer compute figures SCOPE the regulated class; no standalone compute-figure reporting duty to a regulator. (The Mar. 27, 2026 chapter amendment revised the large-developer threshold to align more closely with California's criteria; the verdict — coverage-scoping, not a reporting duty — is unchanged by the specific figure.)
- implicitAgentic AI Governance— N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(7) critical harm includes model conduct 'with no meaningful human intervention'; § 1420(13) 'safety incident' includes autonomous model behaviour + control failures — autonomy reached via the catastrophic-risk/incident lens, not a dedicated agentic regime
Cite this briefing
MLA (9th edition)
Policy Window. "New York RAISE Act: Responsible AI Safety and Education Act." Policy Window AI Governance Catalog, 2026-06-30, https://policywindow.org/wiki/ny-raise-act?asOf=2026-06-30.
AP (current style — newsroom-grade)
Policy Window AI Governance Catalog, "New York RAISE Act: Responsible AI Safety and Education Act," accessed 2026-06-30, https://policywindow.org/wiki/ny-raise-act?asOf=2026-06-30.
Chicago (17th edition, notes-bibliography)
Policy Window, "New York RAISE Act: Responsible AI Safety and Education Act," Policy Window AI Governance Catalog, accessed 2026-06-30, https://policywindow.org/wiki/ny-raise-act?asOf=2026-06-30.
APA (7th edition, author-date)
Policy Window. (2026). New York RAISE Act: Responsible AI Safety and Education Act [Snapshot 2026-06-30]. Policy Window AI Governance Catalog. https://policywindow.org/wiki/ny-raise-act?asOf=2026-06-30
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