"A group of more than 150 parents sent a letter on Friday to New York governor Kathy Hochul, urging her to sign the Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act, a buzzy bill that would require developers of large AI models - like Meta, OpenAI, Deepseek, and Google - to create safety plans and follow transparency rules about reporting safety incidents. The bill passed in both the New York State Senate and the Assembly in June."
"But this week, Hochul reportedly proposed a near-total rewrite of the RAISE Act that would make it more favorable to tech companies, akin to some of the changes made to California's SB 53 after large AI companies weighed in on it. Many AI companies, unsurprisingly, are squarely against the legislation. The AI Alliance, which countsMeta, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Snowflake, Uber, AMD, Databricks, and Hugging Face among its members, sent a letter in June to New York lawmakers detailing their "deep concern" about the RAISE Act, calling it "unworkable.""
More than 150 parents urged Governor Kathy Hochul to sign the Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act, which would require developers of large AI models like Meta, OpenAI, Deepseek, and Google to create safety plans and follow transparency rules about reporting safety incidents. The bill passed both the New York State Senate and Assembly in June. Hochul reportedly proposed a near-total rewrite that would make the bill more favorable to tech companies, similar to changes made to California's SB 53. Many AI companies oppose the legislation; the AI Alliance described it as "unworkable." Pro‑AI groups and PACs have targeted New York regarding the measure.
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