The passage of the RAISE Act represents a win for the AI safety movement, which has [lost ground in recent years](https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/01/2024-the-year-silicon-valley-stifled-the-ai-doom-movement/) as Silicon Valley and the Trump administration have prioritized speed and innovation. Safety advocates including Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton and AI research pioneer Yoshua Bengio have championed the RAISE Act. Should it become law, the bill would establish America’s first set of legally mandated transparency standards for frontier AI labs.
So this explains all the unsolicited “contact your local lawmakers, NY is about to pass a law that stifles technological growth and will affect local businesses” that I’ve been inundated with.
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Now if only government could pass bills to prevent human-fueled disasters. 🤷♂️
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Submission statement: New York state lawmakers [passed a bill ](https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025/andrew-gounardes/sen-gounardes-ai-safety-bill-passes-state-senate)on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic from contributing to disaster scenarios, including the death or injury of more than 100 people, or more than $1 billion in damages.
The passage of the RAISE Act represents a win for the AI safety movement, which has [lost ground in recent years](https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/01/2024-the-year-silicon-valley-stifled-the-ai-doom-movement/) as Silicon Valley and the Trump administration have prioritized speed and innovation. Safety advocates including Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton and AI research pioneer Yoshua Bengio have championed the RAISE Act. Should it become law, the bill would establish America’s first set of legally mandated transparency standards for frontier AI labs.
So will this be grandfathered or made invalid of the [prohibition on AI regulation in The Big Beautiful Bill passes?](https://apnews.com/article/ai-regulation-state-moratorium-congress-39d1c8a0758ffe0242283bb82f66d51a) Serious question.
So this explains all the unsolicited “contact your local lawmakers, NY is about to pass a law that stifles technological growth and will affect local businesses” that I’ve been inundated with.
Now if only government could pass bills to prevent human-fueled disasters. 🤷♂️