Governor Kathy Hochul has signed the RAISE Act, positioning New York because the second U.S. state to enact main AI security laws.
State lawmakers handed RAISE Act in June, however following lobbying from the tech trade, Hochul proposed modifications to scale the invoice again. The New York Instances studies that Hochul in the end agreed to signal the unique invoice, whereas lawmakers agreed to make her requested modifications subsequent 12 months.
The invoice would require giant AI builders to publish details about their security protocols and report security incidents to the state inside 72 hours. It’s going to additionally create a brand new workplace inside the Division of Monetary Companies to watch AI improvement.
If firms fail to submit security studies or make false statements, they are often fined as much as $1 million ($3 million for subsequent violations).
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the same security invoice in September, which Hochul referenced in her announcement.
“This legislation builds on California’s just lately adopted framework, making a unified benchmark among the many nation’s main tech states because the federal authorities lags behind, failing to implement common sense rules that shield the general public,” Hochul stated.
State Senator Andrew Gounardes, one of many invoice’s sponsors, posted, “Massive Tech thought they might weasel their method into killing our invoice. We shut them down and handed the strongest AI security legislation within the nation.”
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Each OpenAI and Anthropic expressed assist for New York’s invoice whereas additionally calling for federal laws, with Anthropic’s head of exterior affairs Sarah Heck telling the NYT, “The truth that two of the most important states within the nation have now enacted AI transparency laws alerts the vital significance of security and may encourage Congress to construct on them.”
Not everybody within the tech trade has been so supportive. In reality, a brilliant PAC backed by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman is trying to problem Assemblyman Alex Bores, who co-sponsored the invoice with Gounardes. (Bores advised journalists, “I recognize how simple they’re being about it.”)
This comes after President Donald Trump signed an govt order that directs federal businesses to problem state AI legal guidelines. The order — backed by Trump’s AI czar David Sacks — is the newest try by the Trump Administration to curtail states’ means to control AI, and can seemingly be challenged in courtroom.
We additionally mentioned Trump’s govt order, and the function that Sacks and a16z have performed in opposing state AI regulation, on the newest episode of the Fairness podcast.
