One year after passing the landmark RAISE Act, a pair of New York lawmakers want the state to double down. State Sen. Andrew Gounardes of Brooklyn and Assemblymember Jordan Wright of Harlem introduced a bill on Thursday (Oct. 29) to build on the earlier AI safety law by adding new incident disclosure requirements, bolstering enforcement and establishing independent safety oversight.

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The bill would require large developers to report quarterly on how much of their AI research is automated, known as recursive self-improvement, and how they use their computing power. They would also have to disclose any substantial jump in risk or in their models’ ability to automate AI research within 72 hours.

It also would enable the newly-created state Office of Digital Innovation, Governance, Integrity and Trust (DIGIT) to limit the computing power large developers devote to training new models or to automated AI research to reduce the risk of catastrophic damage from adverse events and to prevent a critical safety incident. And it empowers the Attorney General to ask a court to halt dangerous activity, including by restricting a model’s deployment in New York.

The biggest proposed change, however, is to mandate independent safety audits for large developers. The RAISE Act only requires AI developers to disclose their safety plans. The new bill would require developers to retain an independent, state-licensed “frontier examiner,” to conduct annual audits of the developer’s compliance with its safety frameworks, and perform broader safety evaluations and make catastrophic risk assessments every 90 days.

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