New York · Senate Bill · 2025–2026 Regular Sessions
SB6953
New York Senate Bill 6953-A — An Act to amend the general business law, in relation to the training and use of artificial intelligence frontier models (Responsible AI Safety and Education Act)

Status ● Enacted Effective Dec 19, 2025 Passage Likelihood N/A

WHAT THIS BILL REGULATES · 4 REQUIREMENT TYPES

How Is This Bill Enforced

Enforcement Authority
Attorney general enforcement only. The attorney general may bring a civil action for violations. No private right of action is created for violations of the transparency or safety obligations (§ 1421). Employees harmed by retaliation under § 1422 may petition a court for temporary or preliminary injunctive relief, but this is limited to retaliation claims and does not extend to the broader compliance obligations. The Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services receives safety protocols, audit reports, and safety incident disclosures and must make critical safety incident disclosures available to the attorney general upon request.
Private Right of Action
No private right of action. Enforcement is exclusive to the designated authority.
Penalties
For violations of § 1421 (transparency and safety requirements): civil penalty up to $10 million for a first violation and up to $30 million for any subsequent violation. For violations of § 1422 (employee retaliation): civil penalty up to $10,000 per employee per violation, awarded to the affected employee. Injunctive or declaratory relief is available for violations of either section. Contract provisions that waive, preclude, burden, or shift liability arising from violations — including via contracts of adhesion — are void as a matter of public policy. Courts may disregard corporate formalities and impose joint and several liability on affiliated entities that structured themselves to purposely and unreasonably limit or avoid liability.

What This Bill Requires

Verbatim statutory text on the left; plain-language analysis and a per-section checklist on the right. Numbered markers cross-link to the matching checklist row.

Statutory Text
Analysis & Obligations
Gen. Bus. Law § 1420
Definitions

As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Appropriate redactionsAppropriate redactions"Appropriate redactions" means redactions to a safety and security protocol or audit report that a developer may make when necessary to: (a) protect public safety to the extent the developer can reasonably predict such risks; (b) protect trade secrets; (c) prevent the release of confidential information as required by state or federal law; (d) protect employee or customer privacy; or (e) prevent the release of information otherwise controlled by state or federal law.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(1)" means redactions to a safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(12) or audit report that a developer may make when necessary to: (a) protect public safety to the extent the developer can reasonably predict such risks; (b) protect trade secretsTrade secret"Trade secret" means any form and type of financial, business, scientific, technical, economic, or engineering information, including a pattern, plan, compilation, program device, formula, design, prototype, method, technique, process, procedure, program, or code, whether tangible or intangible, and whether or how stored, compiled, or memorialized physically, electronically, graphically, photographically or in writing, that: (a) Derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; and (b) Is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(14); (c) prevent the release of confidential information as required by state or federal law; (d) protect employeeEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a) or customer privacy; or (e) prevent the release of information otherwise controlled by state or federal law. 2. "Artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence"Artificial intelligence" means a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments, and that uses machine- and human-based inputs to perceive real and virtual environments, abstract such perceptions into models through analysis in an automated manner, and use model inference to formulate options for information or action.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(2)" means a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments, and that uses machine- and human-based inputs to perceive real and virtual environments, abstract such perceptions into models through analysis in an automated manner, and use model inference to formulate options for information or action. 3. "Artificial intelligence modelArtificial intelligence model"Artificial intelligence model" means an information system or component of an information system that implements artificial intelligence technology and uses computational, statistical, or machine-learning techniques to produce outputs from a given set of inputs.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(3)" means an information system or component of an information system that implements artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence"Artificial intelligence" means a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments, and that uses machine- and human-based inputs to perceive real and virtual environments, abstract such perceptions into models through analysis in an automated manner, and use model inference to formulate options for information or action.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(2) technology and uses computational, statistical, or machine-learning techniques to produce outputs from a given set of inputs. 4. "Compute costCompute cost"Compute cost" means the cost incurred to pay for compute used in training a model when calculated using the average published market prices of cloud compute in the United States at the start of training such model as reasonably assessed by the person doing the training.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(4)" means the cost incurred to pay for compute used in training a model when calculated using the average published market prices of cloud compute in the United States at the start of training such model as reasonably assessed by the personPerson"Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, or any other nongovernmental organization or group of persons acting in concert.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(11) doing the training. 5. "DeployDeploy"Deploy" means to use a frontier model or to make a frontier model foreseeably available to one or more third parties for use, modification, copying, or a combination thereof with other software, except for training or developing the frontier model, evaluating the frontier model or other frontier models, or complying with federal or state laws.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(5)" means to use a frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) or to make a frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) foreseeably available to one or more third parties for use, modification, copying, or a combination thereof with other software, except for training or developing the frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6), evaluating the frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) or other frontier modelsFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6), or complying with federal or state laws. 6. "Frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6)" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence modelArtificial intelligence model"Artificial intelligence model" means an information system or component of an information system that implements artificial intelligence technology and uses computational, statistical, or machine-learning techniques to produce outputs from a given set of inputs.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(3) trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence modelArtificial intelligence model"Artificial intelligence model" means an information system or component of an information system that implements artificial intelligence technology and uses computational, statistical, or machine-learning techniques to produce outputs from a given set of inputs.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(3) produced by applying knowledge distillationKnowledge distillation"Knowledge distillation" means any supervised learning technique that uses a larger artificial intelligence model or the output of a larger artificial intelligence model to train a smaller artificial intelligence model with similar or equivalent capabilities as the larger artificial intelligence model.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(8) to a frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision. 7. "Critical harmCritical harm"Critical harm" means the death or serious injury of one hundred or more people or at least one billion dollars of damages to rights in money or property caused or materially enabled by a large developer's creation, use, storage, or release of a frontier model, through either of the following: (a) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; or (b) An artificial intelligence model engaging in conduct that does both of the following: (i) Acts with limited human intervention; and (ii) Would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the penal law that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime. A harm inflicted by an intervening human actor shall not be deemed to result from a developer's activities unless such activities made it substantially easier or more likely for the actor to inflict such harm.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(7)" means the death or serious injury of one hundred or more people or at least one billion dollars of damages to rights in money or property caused or materially enabled by a large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9)'s creation, use, storage, or release of a frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6), through either of the following: (a) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; or (b) An artificial intelligence modelArtificial intelligence model"Artificial intelligence model" means an information system or component of an information system that implements artificial intelligence technology and uses computational, statistical, or machine-learning techniques to produce outputs from a given set of inputs.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(3) engaging in conduct that does both of the following: (i) Acts with limited human intervention; and (ii) Would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the penal law that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime. A harm inflicted by an intervening human actor shall not be deemed to result from a developer's activities unless such activities made it substantially easier or more likely for the actor to inflict such harm. 8. "Knowledge distillationKnowledge distillation"Knowledge distillation" means any supervised learning technique that uses a larger artificial intelligence model or the output of a larger artificial intelligence model to train a smaller artificial intelligence model with similar or equivalent capabilities as the larger artificial intelligence model.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(8)" means any supervised learning technique that uses a larger artificial intelligence modelArtificial intelligence model"Artificial intelligence model" means an information system or component of an information system that implements artificial intelligence technology and uses computational, statistical, or machine-learning techniques to produce outputs from a given set of inputs.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(3) or the output of a larger artificial intelligence modelArtificial intelligence model"Artificial intelligence model" means an information system or component of an information system that implements artificial intelligence technology and uses computational, statistical, or machine-learning techniques to produce outputs from a given set of inputs.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(3) to train a smaller artificial intelligence modelArtificial intelligence model"Artificial intelligence model" means an information system or component of an information system that implements artificial intelligence technology and uses computational, statistical, or machine-learning techniques to produce outputs from a given set of inputs.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(3) with similar or equivalent capabilities as the larger artificial intelligence modelArtificial intelligence model"Artificial intelligence model" means an information system or component of an information system that implements artificial intelligence technology and uses computational, statistical, or machine-learning techniques to produce outputs from a given set of inputs.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(3). 9. "Large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9)" means a personPerson"Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, or any other nongovernmental organization or group of persons acting in concert.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(11) that has trained at least one frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6), the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costsCompute cost"Compute cost" means the cost incurred to pay for compute used in training a model when calculated using the average published market prices of cloud compute in the United States at the start of training such model as reasonably assessed by the person doing the training.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(4) in aggregate in training frontier modelsFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6). Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developersLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a personPerson"Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, or any other nongovernmental organization or group of persons acting in concert.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(11) subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) to another personPerson"Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, or any other nongovernmental organization or group of persons acting in concert.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(11) (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving personPerson"Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, or any other nongovernmental organization or group of persons acting in concert.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(11) shall be considered the large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer. 10. "Model weightModel weight"Model weight" means a numerical parameter in an artificial intelligence model that is adjusted through training and that helps determine how inputs are transformed into outputs.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(10)" means a numerical parameter in an artificial intelligence modelArtificial intelligence model"Artificial intelligence model" means an information system or component of an information system that implements artificial intelligence technology and uses computational, statistical, or machine-learning techniques to produce outputs from a given set of inputs.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(3) that is adjusted through training and that helps determine how inputs are transformed into outputs. 11. "PersonPerson"Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, or any other nongovernmental organization or group of persons acting in concert.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(11)" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, or any other nongovernmental organization or group of personsPerson"Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, or any other nongovernmental organization or group of persons acting in concert.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(11) acting in concert. 12. "Safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(12)" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harmCritical harm"Critical harm" means the death or serious injury of one hundred or more people or at least one billion dollars of damages to rights in money or property caused or materially enabled by a large developer's creation, use, storage, or release of a frontier model, through either of the following: (a) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; or (b) An artificial intelligence model engaging in conduct that does both of the following: (i) Acts with limited human intervention; and (ii) Would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the penal law that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime. A harm inflicted by an intervening human actor shall not be deemed to result from a developer's activities unless such activities made it substantially easier or more likely for the actor to inflict such harm.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(7); (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier modelsFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) within the large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9)'s control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier modelsFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) leading to critical harmCritical harm"Critical harm" means the death or serious injury of one hundred or more people or at least one billion dollars of damages to rights in money or property caused or materially enabled by a large developer's creation, use, storage, or release of a frontier model, through either of the following: (a) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; or (b) An artificial intelligence model engaging in conduct that does both of the following: (i) Acts with limited human intervention; and (ii) Would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the penal law that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime. A harm inflicted by an intervening human actor shall not be deemed to result from a developer's activities unless such activities made it substantially easier or more likely for the actor to inflict such harm.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(7), including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) poses an unreasonable risk of critical harmCritical harm"Critical harm" means the death or serious injury of one hundred or more people or at least one billion dollars of damages to rights in money or property caused or materially enabled by a large developer's creation, use, storage, or release of a frontier model, through either of the following: (a) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; or (b) An artificial intelligence model engaging in conduct that does both of the following: (i) Acts with limited human intervention; and (ii) Would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the penal law that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime. A harm inflicted by an intervening human actor shall not be deemed to result from a developer's activities unless such activities made it substantially easier or more likely for the actor to inflict such harm.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(7); (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harmCritical harm"Critical harm" means the death or serious injury of one hundred or more people or at least one billion dollars of damages to rights in money or property caused or materially enabled by a large developer's creation, use, storage, or release of a frontier model, through either of the following: (a) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; or (b) An artificial intelligence model engaging in conduct that does both of the following: (i) Acts with limited human intervention; and (ii) Would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the penal law that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime. A harm inflicted by an intervening human actor shall not be deemed to result from a developer's activities unless such activities made it substantially easier or more likely for the actor to inflict such harm.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(7); (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(12) have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance. 13. "Safety incidentSafety incident"Safety incident" means an incident of the following kinds that occurs in such a way that it provides demonstrable evidence of an increased risk of critical harm: (a) A frontier model autonomously engaging in behavior other than at the request of a user; (b) Theft, misappropriation, malicious use, inadvertent release, unauthorized access, or escape of the model weights of a frontier model; (c) The critical failure of any technical or administrative controls, including controls limiting the ability to modify a frontier model; or (d) Unauthorized use of a frontier model.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(13)" means an incident of the following kinds that occurs in such a way that it provides demonstrable evidence of an increased risk of critical harmCritical harm"Critical harm" means the death or serious injury of one hundred or more people or at least one billion dollars of damages to rights in money or property caused or materially enabled by a large developer's creation, use, storage, or release of a frontier model, through either of the following: (a) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; or (b) An artificial intelligence model engaging in conduct that does both of the following: (i) Acts with limited human intervention; and (ii) Would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the penal law that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime. A harm inflicted by an intervening human actor shall not be deemed to result from a developer's activities unless such activities made it substantially easier or more likely for the actor to inflict such harm.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(7): (a) A frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) autonomously engaging in behavior other than at the request of a user; (b) Theft, misappropriation, malicious use, inadvertent release, unauthorized access, or escape of the model weights of a frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6); (c) The critical failure of any technical or administrative controls, including controls limiting the ability to modify a frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6); or (d) Unauthorized use of a frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6). 14. "Trade secretTrade secret"Trade secret" means any form and type of financial, business, scientific, technical, economic, or engineering information, including a pattern, plan, compilation, program device, formula, design, prototype, method, technique, process, procedure, program, or code, whether tangible or intangible, and whether or how stored, compiled, or memorialized physically, electronically, graphically, photographically or in writing, that: (a) Derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; and (b) Is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(14)" means any form and type of financial, business, scientific, technical, economic, or engineering information, including a pattern, plan, compilation, program device, formula, design, prototype, method, technique, process, procedure, program, or code, whether tangible or intangible, and whether or how stored, compiled, or memorialized physically, electronically, graphically, photographically or in writing, that: (a) Derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other personsPerson"Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, or any other nongovernmental organization or group of persons acting in concert.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(11) who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; and (b) Is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.

Section 1420 establishes the defined terms for the RAISE Act. The most consequential definitions are frontier model (dual threshold: >10^26 compute operations AND >$100M compute cost, plus knowledge-distilled derivatives), large developer (trained at least one frontier model costing >$5M and spent >$100M aggregate on frontier model training, with an academic research carve-out), and critical harm (100+ deaths/serious injuries or $1B+ damages through CBRN weapons or autonomous criminal AI conduct). The safety and security protocol definition is unusually prescriptive, requiring seven enumerated components including cybersecurity protections, testing procedures, compliance requirements, and designation of senior personnel.

Gen. Bus. Law § 1421
Transparency requirements regarding frontier model training and use
Developer

1(a)–(e) 1 Before deploying a frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6), the large developer of such frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) shall do all of the following: (a) Implement a written safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(12); (b) Retain an unredacted copy of the safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(12), including records and dates of any updates or revisions. Such unredacted copy of the safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(12), including records and dates of any updates or revisions, shall be retained for as long as a frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) is deployed plus five years; (c) (i) Conspicuously publish a copy of the safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(12) with appropriate redactionsAppropriate redactions"Appropriate redactions" means redactions to a safety and security protocol or audit report that a developer may make when necessary to: (a) protect public safety to the extent the developer can reasonably predict such risks; (b) protect trade secrets; (c) prevent the release of confidential information as required by state or federal law; (d) protect employee or customer privacy; or (e) prevent the release of information otherwise controlled by state or federal law.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(1) and transmit a copy of such redacted safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(12) to the division of homeland security and emergency services; (ii) Grant the division of homeland security and emergency services or the attorney general access to the safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(12), with redactions only to the extent required by federal law, upon request; (d) Record, as and when reasonably possible, and retain for as long as the frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) is deployed plus five years information on the specific tests and test results used in any assessment of the frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) that provides sufficient detail for third parties to replicate the testing procedure; and (e) Implement appropriate safeguards to prevent unreasonable risk of critical harmCritical harm"Critical harm" means the death or serious injury of one hundred or more people or at least one billion dollars of damages to rights in money or property caused or materially enabled by a large developer's creation, use, storage, or release of a frontier model, through either of the following: (a) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; or (b) An artificial intelligence model engaging in conduct that does both of the following: (i) Acts with limited human intervention; and (ii) Would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the penal law that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime. A harm inflicted by an intervening human actor shall not be deemed to result from a developer's activities unless such activities made it substantially easier or more likely for the actor to inflict such harm.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(7).

2 2 A large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) shall not deployDeploy"Deploy" means to use a frontier model or to make a frontier model foreseeably available to one or more third parties for use, modification, copying, or a combination thereof with other software, except for training or developing the frontier model, evaluating the frontier model or other frontier models, or complying with federal or state laws.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(5) a frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) if doing so would create an unreasonable risk of critical harmCritical harm"Critical harm" means the death or serious injury of one hundred or more people or at least one billion dollars of damages to rights in money or property caused or materially enabled by a large developer's creation, use, storage, or release of a frontier model, through either of the following: (a) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; or (b) An artificial intelligence model engaging in conduct that does both of the following: (i) Acts with limited human intervention; and (ii) Would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the penal law that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime. A harm inflicted by an intervening human actor shall not be deemed to result from a developer's activities unless such activities made it substantially easier or more likely for the actor to inflict such harm.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(7).

3 3 A large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) shall conduct an annual review of any safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(12) required by this section to account for any changes to the capabilities of their frontier modelsFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) and industry best practices and, if necessary, make modifications to such safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(12). If any modifications are made, the large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) shall publish the safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(12) in the same manner as required pursuant to paragraph (c) of subdivision one of this section.

4(a)–(e) 4 Beginning on the effective date of this article, or ninety days after a developer first qualifies as a large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9), whichever is later, a large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) shall annually retain a third party to perform an independent audit of compliance with the requirements of this section. Such third party shall conduct audits consistent with best practices. (b) The third party shall be granted access to unredacted materials as necessary to comply with the third party's obligations under this subdivision. (c) The third party shall produce a report including all of the following: (i) A detailed assessment of the large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9)'s steps to comply with the requirements of this section; (ii) If applicable, any identified instances of noncompliance with the requirements of this section, and any recommendations for how the developer can improve its policies and processes for ensuring compliance with the requirements of this section; (iii) A detailed assessment of the large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9)'s internal controls, including its designation and empowerment of senior personnel responsible for ensuring compliance by the large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9), its employeesEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a), and its contractors; and (iv) The signature of the lead auditor certifying the results of the audit. (d) The large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) shall retain an unredacted copy of the report for as long as a frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) is deployed plus five years. (e) (i) The large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) shall conspicuously publish a copy of the third party's report with appropriate redactionsAppropriate redactions"Appropriate redactions" means redactions to a safety and security protocol or audit report that a developer may make when necessary to: (a) protect public safety to the extent the developer can reasonably predict such risks; (b) protect trade secrets; (c) prevent the release of confidential information as required by state or federal law; (d) protect employee or customer privacy; or (e) prevent the release of information otherwise controlled by state or federal law.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(1) and transmit a copy of such redacted report to the division of homeland security and emergency services. (ii) The large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) shall grant the division of homeland security and emergency services or the attorney general access to the third party's report, with redactions only to the extent required by federal law, upon request.

5 5 A large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) shall disclose each safety incidentSafety incident"Safety incident" means an incident of the following kinds that occurs in such a way that it provides demonstrable evidence of an increased risk of critical harm: (a) A frontier model autonomously engaging in behavior other than at the request of a user; (b) Theft, misappropriation, malicious use, inadvertent release, unauthorized access, or escape of the model weights of a frontier model; (c) The critical failure of any technical or administrative controls, including controls limiting the ability to modify a frontier model; or (d) Unauthorized use of a frontier model.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(13) affecting the frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) to the division of homeland security and emergency services within seventy-two hours of the large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) learning of the safety incidentSafety incident"Safety incident" means an incident of the following kinds that occurs in such a way that it provides demonstrable evidence of an increased risk of critical harm: (a) A frontier model autonomously engaging in behavior other than at the request of a user; (b) Theft, misappropriation, malicious use, inadvertent release, unauthorized access, or escape of the model weights of a frontier model; (c) The critical failure of any technical or administrative controls, including controls limiting the ability to modify a frontier model; or (d) Unauthorized use of a frontier model.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(13) or within seventy-two hours of the large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) learning facts sufficient to establish a reasonable belief that a safety incidentSafety incident"Safety incident" means an incident of the following kinds that occurs in such a way that it provides demonstrable evidence of an increased risk of critical harm: (a) A frontier model autonomously engaging in behavior other than at the request of a user; (b) Theft, misappropriation, malicious use, inadvertent release, unauthorized access, or escape of the model weights of a frontier model; (c) The critical failure of any technical or administrative controls, including controls limiting the ability to modify a frontier model; or (d) Unauthorized use of a frontier model.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(13) has occurred. Such disclosure shall include: (a) the date of the safety incidentSafety incident"Safety incident" means an incident of the following kinds that occurs in such a way that it provides demonstrable evidence of an increased risk of critical harm: (a) A frontier model autonomously engaging in behavior other than at the request of a user; (b) Theft, misappropriation, malicious use, inadvertent release, unauthorized access, or escape of the model weights of a frontier model; (c) The critical failure of any technical or administrative controls, including controls limiting the ability to modify a frontier model; or (d) Unauthorized use of a frontier model.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(13); (b) the reasons the incident qualifies as a safety incidentSafety incident"Safety incident" means an incident of the following kinds that occurs in such a way that it provides demonstrable evidence of an increased risk of critical harm: (a) A frontier model autonomously engaging in behavior other than at the request of a user; (b) Theft, misappropriation, malicious use, inadvertent release, unauthorized access, or escape of the model weights of a frontier model; (c) The critical failure of any technical or administrative controls, including controls limiting the ability to modify a frontier model; or (d) Unauthorized use of a frontier model.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(13) as defined in subdivision thirteen of section fourteen hundred twenty of this article; and (c) a short and plain statement describing the safety incidentSafety incident"Safety incident" means an incident of the following kinds that occurs in such a way that it provides demonstrable evidence of an increased risk of critical harm: (a) A frontier model autonomously engaging in behavior other than at the request of a user; (b) Theft, misappropriation, malicious use, inadvertent release, unauthorized access, or escape of the model weights of a frontier model; (c) The critical failure of any technical or administrative controls, including controls limiting the ability to modify a frontier model; or (d) Unauthorized use of a frontier model.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(13).

6 6 A large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) shall not knowingly make false or materially misleading statements or omissions in or regarding documents produced pursuant to this section.

7(a)–(b) 7 Any personPerson"Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, or any other nongovernmental organization or group of persons acting in concert.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(11) who is not a large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9), but who sets out to train a frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) that if completed as planned would qualify such personPerson"Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, or any other nongovernmental organization or group of persons acting in concert.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(11) as a large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) (i.e. at the end of the training, such personPerson"Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, or any other nongovernmental organization or group of persons acting in concert.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(11) will have spent five million dollars in compute costsCompute cost"Compute cost" means the cost incurred to pay for compute used in training a model when calculated using the average published market prices of cloud compute in the United States at the start of training such model as reasonably assessed by the person doing the training.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(4) on one frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) and one hundred million dollars in compute costsCompute cost"Compute cost" means the cost incurred to pay for compute used in training a model when calculated using the average published market prices of cloud compute in the United States at the start of training such model as reasonably assessed by the person doing the training.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(4) in aggregate in training frontier modelsFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6), excluding accredited colleges and universities to the extent such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research) shall, before training such model: (a) Implement a written safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(12), excluding the requirements described in paragraphs (c) and (d) of subdivision twelve of section fourteen hundred twenty of this article; and (b) Transmit a copy of an appropriately redacted safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(12) to the division of homeland security and emergency services.

Section 1421 is the operative core of the RAISE Act, imposing seven categories of obligations on large developers: (1) pre-deployment safety and security protocol implementation, retention, publication, and regulatory submission; (2) a prohibition on deploying frontier models that create unreasonable risk of critical harm; (3) annual protocol review and update; (4) annual independent third-party compliance audits with publication and regulatory submission of reports; (5) 72-hour safety incident reporting; (6) a prohibition on false or misleading statements in produced documents; and (7) pre-training obligations for persons planning to reach the large developer threshold.

The protocol must be published with appropriate redactions but made available unredacted to the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services and the attorney general upon request. Audit reports follow the same dual-publication model. Record retention is keyed to deployment duration plus five years.

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Large developersLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) must, before deploying any frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6): (1) implement a written safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. 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Law § 1420(12) covering risk reduction, cybersecurity protections, testing procedures, compliance requirements, and senior personnel designation; (2) retain an unredacted copy of the protocol (including update records) for the duration of deployment plus five years; (3) conspicuously publish a redacted copy and transmit it to the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services; (4) grant DHSES or the attorney general access to the unredacted protocol upon request (with redactions only as required by federal law); (5) record and retain for deployment plus five years all test data and results from frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) assessments, in sufficient detail for third-party replication; and (6) implement appropriate safeguards to prevent unreasonable risk of critical harmCritical harm"Critical harm" means the death or serious injury of one hundred or more people or at least one billion dollars of damages to rights in money or property caused or materially enabled by a large developer's creation, use, storage, or release of a frontier model, through either of the following: (a) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; or (b) An artificial intelligence model engaging in conduct that does both of the following: (i) Acts with limited human intervention; and (ii) Would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the penal law that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime. A harm inflicted by an intervening human actor shall not be deemed to result from a developer's activities unless such activities made it substantially easier or more likely for the actor to inflict such harm.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(7).
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Large developersLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) must not deployDeploy"Deploy" means to use a frontier model or to make a frontier model foreseeably available to one or more third parties for use, modification, copying, or a combination thereof with other software, except for training or developing the frontier model, evaluating the frontier model or other frontier models, or complying with federal or state laws.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(5) a frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) if doing so would create an unreasonable risk of critical harmCritical harm"Critical harm" means the death or serious injury of one hundred or more people or at least one billion dollars of damages to rights in money or property caused or materially enabled by a large developer's creation, use, storage, or release of a frontier model, through either of the following: (a) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; or (b) An artificial intelligence model engaging in conduct that does both of the following: (i) Acts with limited human intervention; and (ii) Would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the penal law that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime. A harm inflicted by an intervening human actor shall not be deemed to result from a developer's activities unless such activities made it substantially easier or more likely for the actor to inflict such harm.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(7). Critical harmCritical harm"Critical harm" means the death or serious injury of one hundred or more people or at least one billion dollars of damages to rights in money or property caused or materially enabled by a large developer's creation, use, storage, or release of a frontier model, through either of the following: (a) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; or (b) An artificial intelligence model engaging in conduct that does both of the following: (i) Acts with limited human intervention; and (ii) Would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the penal law that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime. A harm inflicted by an intervening human actor shall not be deemed to result from a developer's activities unless such activities made it substantially easier or more likely for the actor to inflict such harm.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(7) is defined as death or serious injury of 100 or more people or at least $1 billion in damages through CBRN weapon creation/use or autonomous AI criminal conduct with limited human intervention.
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Large developersLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) must conduct an annual review of their safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(12) to account for changes to frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) capabilities and industry best practices, and must modify the protocol if necessary. If modifications are made, the updated protocol must be published and transmitted to DHSES in the same manner as the original.
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Large developersLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) must annually retain an independent third party to audit compliance with § 1421, beginning on the effective date of the article or 90 days after first qualifying as a large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9), whichever is later. The auditor must be granted access to unredacted materials and must produce a report including: (1) a detailed assessment of compliance steps; (2) identified instances of noncompliance and improvement recommendations; (3) assessment of internal controls, including designation and empowerment of senior personnel responsible for compliance; and (4) the lead auditor's certifying signature. The large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) must retain the unredacted report for deployment plus five years, conspicuously publish a redacted copy, transmit a redacted copy to DHSES, and grant DHSES or the attorney general access to the unredacted report upon request.
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Large developersLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) must disclose each safety incidentSafety incident"Safety incident" means an incident of the following kinds that occurs in such a way that it provides demonstrable evidence of an increased risk of critical harm: (a) A frontier model autonomously engaging in behavior other than at the request of a user; (b) Theft, misappropriation, malicious use, inadvertent release, unauthorized access, or escape of the model weights of a frontier model; (c) The critical failure of any technical or administrative controls, including controls limiting the ability to modify a frontier model; or (d) Unauthorized use of a frontier model.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(13) affecting a frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) to the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services within 72 hours of learning of the incident or of learning facts sufficient to establish a reasonable belief that a safety incidentSafety incident"Safety incident" means an incident of the following kinds that occurs in such a way that it provides demonstrable evidence of an increased risk of critical harm: (a) A frontier model autonomously engaging in behavior other than at the request of a user; (b) Theft, misappropriation, malicious use, inadvertent release, unauthorized access, or escape of the model weights of a frontier model; (c) The critical failure of any technical or administrative controls, including controls limiting the ability to modify a frontier model; or (d) Unauthorized use of a frontier model.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(13) has occurred. The disclosure must include: (1) the date of the safety incidentSafety incident"Safety incident" means an incident of the following kinds that occurs in such a way that it provides demonstrable evidence of an increased risk of critical harm: (a) A frontier model autonomously engaging in behavior other than at the request of a user; (b) Theft, misappropriation, malicious use, inadvertent release, unauthorized access, or escape of the model weights of a frontier model; (c) The critical failure of any technical or administrative controls, including controls limiting the ability to modify a frontier model; or (d) Unauthorized use of a frontier model.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(13); (2) the reasons the incident qualifies as a safety incidentSafety incident"Safety incident" means an incident of the following kinds that occurs in such a way that it provides demonstrable evidence of an increased risk of critical harm: (a) A frontier model autonomously engaging in behavior other than at the request of a user; (b) Theft, misappropriation, malicious use, inadvertent release, unauthorized access, or escape of the model weights of a frontier model; (c) The critical failure of any technical or administrative controls, including controls limiting the ability to modify a frontier model; or (d) Unauthorized use of a frontier model.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(13) under the statutory definition; and (3) a short and plain statement describing the safety incidentSafety incident"Safety incident" means an incident of the following kinds that occurs in such a way that it provides demonstrable evidence of an increased risk of critical harm: (a) A frontier model autonomously engaging in behavior other than at the request of a user; (b) Theft, misappropriation, malicious use, inadvertent release, unauthorized access, or escape of the model weights of a frontier model; (c) The critical failure of any technical or administrative controls, including controls limiting the ability to modify a frontier model; or (d) Unauthorized use of a frontier model.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(13).
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Large developersLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) must not knowingly make false or materially misleading statements or omissions in or regarding documents produced pursuant to this section.
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Any personPerson"Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, or any other nongovernmental organization or group of persons acting in concert.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(11) who is not yet a large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) but who sets out to train a frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) that, if completed as planned, would qualify that personPerson"Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, or any other nongovernmental organization or group of persons acting in concert.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(11) as a large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) must, before beginning training: (1) implement a written safety and security protocolSafety and security protocol"Safety and security protocol" means documented technical and organizational protocols that: (a) Specify reasonable protections and procedures that, if successfully implemented would appropriately reduce the risk of critical harm; (b) Describe reasonable administrative, technical, and physical cybersecurity protections for frontier models within the large developer's control that, if successfully implemented, appropriately reduce the risk of unauthorized access to, or misuse of, the frontier models leading to critical harm, including by sophisticated actors; (c) Describe in detail the testing procedure to evaluate if the frontier model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm; (d) Describe in detail how the testing procedure assesses whether the frontier model could be misused, be modified, be executed with increased computational resources, evade the control of its large developer or user, be combined with other software or be used to create another frontier model in a manner that would increase the risk of critical harm; (e) State compliance requirements with sufficient detail and specificity to allow the large developer or a third party to readily ascertain whether the requirements of the safety and security protocol have been followed; (f) Describe how the large developer will fulfill their obligations under this article, including with respect to any requirements, safeguards, or modifications; and (g) Designate senior personnel to be responsible for ensuring compliance.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(12) (excluding the testing-procedure detail requirements of paragraphs (c) and (d) of the protocol definition); and (2) transmit an appropriately redacted copy of the protocol to the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services. Accredited colleges and universities engaging in academic research are excluded.
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Gen. Bus. Law § 1422
Protections, rights and obligations of employees
Developer

1 8 A large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) or a contractor or subcontractor of a large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) shall not prevent an employeeEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a) from disclosing, or threatening to disclose, or retaliate against an employeeEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a) for disclosing or threatening to disclose, information to the large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) or the attorney general, if the employeeEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a) has reasonable cause to believe that the large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9)'s activities pose an unreasonable or substantial risk of critical harmCritical harm"Critical harm" means the death or serious injury of one hundred or more people or at least one billion dollars of damages to rights in money or property caused or materially enabled by a large developer's creation, use, storage, or release of a frontier model, through either of the following: (a) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; or (b) An artificial intelligence model engaging in conduct that does both of the following: (i) Acts with limited human intervention; and (ii) Would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the penal law that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime. A harm inflicted by an intervening human actor shall not be deemed to result from a developer's activities unless such activities made it substantially easier or more likely for the actor to inflict such harm.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(7), regardless of the employer's compliance with applicable law.

2 8 An employeeEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a) harmed by a violation of this section may petition a court for appropriate temporary or preliminary injunctive relief.

3 9 A large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) shall inform employees of their protections, rights and obligations under this article within ninety days of the effective date of this article or of becoming a large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9), whichever is later, upon commencement of employment, and by posting a notice thereof. Such notice shall be posted conspicuously in easily accessible and well-lighted places customarily frequented by employeesEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a).

4 Nothing in this section shall be deemed to diminish the rights, privileges, or remedies of any employeeEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a) under any other law or regulation or under any collective bargaining agreement or employment contract.

5(a)–(b) As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "EmployeeEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a)" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harmCritical harm"Critical harm" means the death or serious injury of one hundred or more people or at least one billion dollars of damages to rights in money or property caused or materially enabled by a large developer's creation, use, storage, or release of a frontier model, through either of the following: (a) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; or (b) An artificial intelligence model engaging in conduct that does both of the following: (i) Acts with limited human intervention; and (ii) Would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the penal law that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime. A harm inflicted by an intervening human actor shall not be deemed to result from a developer's activities unless such activities made it substantially easier or more likely for the actor to inflict such harm.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(7) from frontier modelsFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6); and (ii) Corporate officers. (b) "Contractor or subcontractorContractor or subcontractor"Contractor or subcontractor" means any person, sole proprietor, partnership, firm, corporation, limited liability company, association or other legal entity who by oneself or through others offers to undertake, or holds oneself out as being able to undertake, or does undertake work assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models on behalf of the large developer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(b)" means any personPerson"Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, or any other nongovernmental organization or group of persons acting in concert.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(11), sole proprietor, partnership, firm, corporation, limited liability company, association or other legal entity who by oneself or through others offers to undertake, or holds oneself out as being able to undertake, or does undertake work assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harmCritical harm"Critical harm" means the death or serious injury of one hundred or more people or at least one billion dollars of damages to rights in money or property caused or materially enabled by a large developer's creation, use, storage, or release of a frontier model, through either of the following: (a) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; or (b) An artificial intelligence model engaging in conduct that does both of the following: (i) Acts with limited human intervention; and (ii) Would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the penal law that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime. A harm inflicted by an intervening human actor shall not be deemed to result from a developer's activities unless such activities made it substantially easier or more likely for the actor to inflict such harm.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(7) from frontier modelsFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) on behalf of the large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9).

Section 1422 creates whistleblower protections for employees of large developers (and their contractors/subcontractors). The definition of employee is unusually broad — it includes contractors, subcontractors, unpaid advisors involved in assessing frontier model risks, and corporate officers. The anti-retaliation protection extends to disclosures made to either the large developer itself or the attorney general when the employee has reasonable cause to believe the developer's activities pose an unreasonable or substantial risk of critical harm. Employees may seek injunctive relief for retaliation. Large developers must affirmatively notify employees of their rights within 90 days of the act's effective date or of becoming a large developer, upon commencement of employment, and by conspicuous physical posting.

Compliance actions 2 items
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Large developersLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) and their contractors and subcontractors must not prevent employeesEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a) from disclosing — or threatening to disclose — information to the large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) or the attorney general, and must not retaliate against employeesEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a) for such disclosures, when the employeeEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a) has reasonable cause to believe the large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9)'s activities pose an unreasonable or substantial risk of critical harmCritical harm"Critical harm" means the death or serious injury of one hundred or more people or at least one billion dollars of damages to rights in money or property caused or materially enabled by a large developer's creation, use, storage, or release of a frontier model, through either of the following: (a) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon; or (b) An artificial intelligence model engaging in conduct that does both of the following: (i) Acts with limited human intervention; and (ii) Would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the penal law that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime. A harm inflicted by an intervening human actor shall not be deemed to result from a developer's activities unless such activities made it substantially easier or more likely for the actor to inflict such harm.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(7). This protection applies regardless of the employer's compliance with applicable law. EmployeesEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a) include contractors, subcontractors, unpaid advisors involved in frontier modelFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) risk assessment, and corporate officers. An employeeEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a) harmed by a violation may petition a court for temporary or preliminary injunctive relief.
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Large developersLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) must inform employees of their protections, rights, and obligations under the RAISE Act within 90 days of the effective date or of becoming a large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) (whichever is later), upon commencement of employment, and by posting a conspicuous notice in easily accessible and well-lighted places customarily frequented by employeesEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a).
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Gen. Bus. Law § 1423
Violations

1(a)–(c) The attorney general may bring a civil action for a violation of this article and to recover all of the following: (a) For a violation of section fourteen hundred twenty-one of this article, a civil penalty in an amount not exceeding ten million dollars for a first violation and in an amount not exceeding thirty million dollars for any subsequent violation. (b) For a violation of section fourteen hundred twenty-two of this article, a civil penalty in an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars per employeeEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a) for each violation of such section to be awarded to the employeeEmployee"Employee" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision five of section two of the labor law and includes both of the following: (i) Contractors or subcontractors and unpaid advisors involved with assessing, managing, or addressing the risk of critical harm from frontier models; and (ii) Corporate officers.Gen. Bus. Law § 1422(5)(a) who was retaliated against. (c) For a violation of section fourteen hundred twenty-one or fourteen hundred twenty-two of this article, injunctive or declaratory relief.

2(a)–(b) A provision within a contract or agreement that seeks to waive, preclude, or burden the enforcement of a liability arising from a violation of this article, or to shift that liability to any personPerson"Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, or any other nongovernmental organization or group of persons acting in concert.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(11) or entity in exchange for their use or access of, or right to use or access, a large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9)'s products or services, including by means of a contract of adhesion, is void as a matter of public policy. (b) A court shall disregard corporate formalities and impose joint and several liability on affiliated entities for purposes of effectuating the intent of this section to the maximum extent allowed by law if the court concludes that both of the following are true: (i) The affiliated entities, in the development of the corporate structure among the affiliated entities, took steps to purposely and unreasonably limit or avoid liability; and (ii) As the result of the steps described in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, the corporate structure of the large developerLarge developer"Large developer" means a person that has trained at least one frontier model, the compute cost of which exceeds five million dollars, and has spent over one hundred million dollars in compute costs in aggregate in training frontier models. Accredited colleges and universities shall not be considered large developers under this article to the extent that such colleges and universities are engaging in academic research. If a person subsequently transfers full intellectual property rights of the frontier model to another person (including the right to resell the model) and retains none of those rights for themself, then the receiving person shall be considered the large developer and shall be subject to the responsibilities and requirements of this article after such transfer.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(9) or affiliated entities would frustrate recovery of penalties, damages, or injunctive relief under this section.

3 The division of homeland security and emergency services shall make any critical safety incidentSafety incident"Safety incident" means an incident of the following kinds that occurs in such a way that it provides demonstrable evidence of an increased risk of critical harm: (a) A frontier model autonomously engaging in behavior other than at the request of a user; (b) Theft, misappropriation, malicious use, inadvertent release, unauthorized access, or escape of the model weights of a frontier model; (c) The critical failure of any technical or administrative controls, including controls limiting the ability to modify a frontier model; or (d) Unauthorized use of a frontier model.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(13) disclosure available to the attorney general upon request.

4 This section does not limit the application of other laws.

Section 1423 establishes the enforcement framework: the attorney general may bring civil actions for violations, with tiered penalties — up to $10 million for a first violation and $30 million for subsequent violations of § 1421 (transparency/safety), and up to $10,000 per employee per violation of § 1422 (retaliation). Injunctive and declaratory relief are also available. The section voids contract provisions that waive or shift liability as a matter of public policy and authorizes courts to pierce corporate formalities and impose joint and several liability on affiliated entities that structured themselves to avoid liability. DHSES must make critical safety incident disclosures available to the attorney general upon request.

Gen. Bus. Law § 1424
Duties and obligations

The duties and obligations imposed by this article are cumulative with any other duties or obligations imposed under other law and shall not be construed to relieve any party from any duties or obligations imposed under other law and do not limit any rights or remedies under existing law.

Section 1424 is a cumulative-obligations provision establishing that the RAISE Act supplements rather than displaces other legal duties. It is a savings clause that creates no independent compliance obligation.

Gen. Bus. Law § 1425
Scope

This article shall only apply to frontier modelsFrontier model"Frontier model" means either of the following: (a) an artificial intelligence model trained using greater than 10^26 computational operations (e.g., integer or floating-point operations), the compute cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars; or (b) an artificial intelligence model produced by applying knowledge distillation to a frontier model as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.Gen. Bus. Law § 1420(6) that are developed, deployed, or operating in whole or in part in New York state.

Section 1425 limits the territorial scope of the RAISE Act to frontier models developed, deployed, or operating in whole or in part in New York state. This is a jurisdictional provision that creates no independent compliance obligation but is critical for determining applicability.

Gen. Bus. Law § 1426
Severability

If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section or part of this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been made.

Standard severability clause. If any part of the RAISE Act is invalidated, the remainder continues in effect.

Passage Likelihood

Enacted
Status Enacted

Legislative History

2025-03-27 REFERRED TO INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY
2025-06-03 AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY
2025-06-03 PRINT NUMBER 6953A
2025-06-09 AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY
2025-06-09 PRINT NUMBER 6953B
2025-06-12 COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
2025-06-12 ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1889
2025-06-12 PASSED SENATE
2025-06-12 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2025-06-12 referred to ways and means
2025-06-12 substituted for a6453b
2025-06-12 ordered to third reading rules cal.656
2025-06-12 passed assembly
2025-06-12 returned to senate
2025-12-09 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
2025-12-19 SIGNED CHAP.699
2025-12-19 APPROVAL MEMO.76

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