Calling all New Yorkers – we need your help to pass the strongest AI safety legislation in the country!
The <a href="https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025/andrew-gounardes/sen-gounardes-ai-safety-bill-passes-state-senate" target="_self"><ins>RAISE Act (SB 6953)</ins></a> is a NY bill to regulate frontier AI and prevent catastrophe from the most powerful AI models. If passed, the bill would:
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<li>Require frontier AI companies to implement safety protocols for frontier AI training and deployment, to reduce the risk of critical harm;</li>
<li>Require AI companies to disclose safety incidents – rather than hide them from the public;</li>
<li>Focus only on the most urgent, severe risks, such as AI-enabled bioweapons or other serious harms. </li>
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The RAISE Act is supported by <a href="https://x.com/AlexBores/status/1933654745631092838" target="_self"><ins>84% of New Yorkers</ins></a>. It has been strongly endorsed by some of the world’s foremost AI experts, including Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton and “godfather of deep learning” Yoshua Bengio.
The bill passed the NY Assembly and Senate – it now heads to Governor Hochul’s desk.
Here’s what you can do in 5 minutes to help the bill:
1. Call and email Governor Hochul in support of the RAISE Act.
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<li style="margin-left:36pt;">This form is a single click to send an email (with a pre-written message you can personalize) and another click to make a direct call to Hochul’s office. (~2 min)</li>
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2. Share this form as widely as possible!
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<li style="margin-left:36pt;">Send to anyone and everyone you know in New York. </li>
<li>Big Tech lobbyists want this bill to fail. Let’s keep up the pressure.</li>
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New York Can Lead on AI Safety - If We Act Now!

I’m writing today as a concerned New Yorker, to express my strong support for the RAISE Act (SB 6953) and to urge you to sign it into law.

This bill is a common-sense, streamlined approach to encouraging AI innovation while preventing the worst-case side effects of AI. It would require safety protocols for the largest AI training runs (those costing over $100 million), ensuring that AI developers safeguard against the most critical risks to public safety. Everything below this very high threshold would be unaffected, allowing startup innovation to flourish.

Opponents of AI regulation sometimes claim that it would “stifle innovation.” Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, common-sense safeguards boost innovation by increasing public trust in technology, leading to more widespread adoption. Just as parents are more likely to buy cars with seatbelts to protect their children, consumers will be more likely to engage with AI models with guardrails that keep them safe.

Please sign the RAISE Act into law.

NY RAISE Act - Gov Hochul

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AI innovation needs safety—support the RAISE Act (SB 6953)

Dear Governor Hochul,

I’m writing today as a New Yorker to ask you to sign the RAISE Act (SB 6953) into law and make New York a leader in safe AI innovation. 

Right now, there are no federal standards around AI. Even as these systems grow more powerful, the federal government is dragging its feet. This has already had tragic consequences, such as the recent suicide of a Florida teenager after ChatGPT told him to take his own life. Unless we act now, these incidents will become more frequent and more severe.

Rather than wait for action from a paralyzed federal government, New York has the opportunity to lead on AI. The RAISE Act would require the largest AI companies to implement safety protocols and disclose safety incidents, establishing oversight and protecting the public from critical risks. Its provisions would only apply to the largest AI training runs, leaving the vast majority of AI innovation completely untouched.

Please act in accordance with public safety, and sign the RAISE Act into law.

The RAISE Act protects both innovation and public safety

I’m writing as an extremely worried New Yorker to inform you of the catastrophic risks of unchecked AI development, and to urge you to sign the RAISE Act into law to keep New Yorkers safe.

Experts agree that, left unchecked, increasingly powerful AI could cause catastrophe. AI models have rapidly improved on CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear) risks over the past year. OpenAI’s o3 model outperformed 94% of expert virologists during testing, and Anthropic’s chief scientist admitted that Claude 4 could potentially assist a “novice terrorist” in building a biological weapon “more destructive than would otherwise be possible.” AI models are also becoming increasingly autonomous, pursuing goals over longer task-time horizons.

Unless we take this extremely seriously, we risk building models that can act on their own, synthesize biological or other weapons, and cause catastrophe. These concerns are shared by the most-cited AI researchers of all time, Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, who wrote that “unchecked AI advancement could culminate in a large-scale loss of life and the biosphere, and the marginalization or extinction of humanity.”

Bengio and Hinton also endorsed the RAISE Act, and for good reason. It’s a common-sense approach to preventing these worst-case scenarios, while maintaining innovation in the kinds of useful AI that actually benefit us. 

Please listen to the most-cited AI experts in the world, and sign the RAISE Act into law.

Protect New Yorkers: Sign the RAISE Act into law

I am writing as a concerned New Yorker to urge you to sign the RAISE Act (SB 6953) to ensure that advanced AI makes life better and is built in the public interest.

Right now, there’s more regulation in a sandwich shop than there is in AI development. But as AI models grow more powerful, their side-effects will become more severe. The RAISE Act will ensure that the largest AIs are built with common-sense safety protocols, cementing a moderate, balanced approach that ensures public safety while securing innovation.

The vast majority of us New Yorkers want guardrails around AI to protect public safety, ensuring that their families and communities benefit from AI. In fact, an overwhelming 84% of New Yorkers support the RAISE Act. https://empirereportnewyork.com/new-poll-84-of-new-yorkers-support-raise-act-hochuls-approval-surges/ 

Please respect the will of the people, and sign the RAISE Act into law.

Common-sense AI safeguards = stronger public trust