Parents demand New York Governor to sign landmark AI safety bill

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 controversial bill. would require Developers of large AI models — such as Meta, OpenAI, Deepseek, and Google — to create safety plans and follow transparency rules around reporting safety incidents.

The bill was approved in both the New York State Senate and Assembly in June. But this week, Hoechul It is said He proposed a near-complete rewrite of the RAISE Act that would make it more friendly to tech companies, similar to some laws. Changes made to SB 53 in California After large artificial intelligence companies contributed to this.

Unsurprisingly, many AI companies directly oppose this legislation. AI Alliance, which matters
Meta, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Snowflake, Uber, AMD, Databricks and Hugging Face among their members sent a message letter In June, New York lawmakers detailed their “deep concerns” about the RAISE Act, calling it “unworkable.” Leading the Future, the pro-AI super PAC backed by Perplexity AI, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), OpenAI chief Greg Brockman, and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, been targeted New York State Assemblyman Alex Burris, who co-sponsored the RAISE Act, with the recent announcements.

Two organizations were created together, ParentsTogether Action and the Tech Oversight Project Friday message to Hochulwhich states that some signatories have “lost their children to the harms of chatbots and social media.” The signatories of the RAISE Act in its current form called “simple guardrails” that should become law.

They also highlighted that the bill, as passed by the New York State Legislature, “does not regulate all AI developers — only the largest companies, which spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually.” They will be required to disclose large-scale safety incidents to the prosecutor and publish safety plans. Developers are also prohibited from releasing a parametric model “if doing so would create an unreasonable risk of serious harm,” which is defined as death or serious injury to 100 or more people, or $1 billion or more in rights to money or property resulting from the creation of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; Or an AI model that “operates without any meaningful human intervention” and “if committed by a human,” would fall under certain crimes.

“Big Tech’s opposition to these basic protections feels familiar because we did it
“I have seen this pattern of avoidance and evasion before,” the letter read. “Widespread harm to young people –
Including their mental health, emotional stability and ability to function at school
It has been widely documented ever since the largest technology companies decided to push algorithms
Social media platforms without transparency, oversight or responsibility.”