Which AI companies must register under New York's RAISE Act?
New York opened a registration portal Tuesday for the largest frontier AI developers, including Anthropic and OpenAI, which must sign up by January 1, 2027. The filing requirement is the first visible step toward enforcing the RAISE Act, the state's safety and transparency law, which places new obligations on companies that build the most powerful AI models.
What does the RAISE Act require of AI developers?
The law targets large frontier developers, defined as companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue. Those companies will have to publish safety frameworks on their websites, report critical safety incidents within 72 hours and issue public model transparency reports. Compliance will fall to a newly formed agency, the Office of Digital Innovation, Governance, Integrity, and Trust, known as DIGIT, which will implement the law and oversee the largest AI labs.
What are the penalties for violating the RAISE Act?
Penalties can reach $1 million for a single violation and $3 million for each subsequent violation. The state can also bring enforcement actions against companies that fail to register through the new portal. A spokesperson declined to provide specifics on how those actions would work.
Hochul made the announcement during a press briefing Tuesday, where she took aim at the industry's posture toward regulation. “Tech moguls tell us that their vision for AI is inevitable,” she said. “They tell us get on board or get left behind… That any collateral damage is worth it as long as we win the race to the AI cliff.”
The same day, Hochul launched the New York Center for AI Responsibility and Research at the State University of New York's Binghamton University. The center will independently evaluate the safety, security and operation of advanced AI systems. It will also work with DIGIT to review companies' safety frameworks. Hochul first announced the center in January, backed by $55 million in donations and capital.
“We're building a national model for smart, sensible AI regulation, a model that puts communities above corporations and people above powerful technology,” Hochul said.
The RAISE Act is not New York's only AI safety law. Last year, the state began enforcing a law requiring operators of AI companion products to remind users regularly that they are talking to a bot. Those operators must also make reasonable efforts to detect suicidal ideation and self-harm.
In October, Hochul signed a separate chatbot safety law aimed at minors. It restricts certain behaviors, including deceptive human-like interactions, emotionally manipulative or sycophantic responses, and encouragement of suicide or disordered eating. That law takes effect June 1, 2027.
Other states have moved in a similar direction. California's SB 53 took effect in January. It requires frontier AI labs to put safety frameworks in place and publish them, adds whistleblower protections, and mandates that critical safety incidents be reported within 15 days. Illinois' SB 315, which goes into effect at the start of 2027, includes similar requirements. It also adds independent safety compliance audits.
For the companies named in New York's filing requirement, the coming months will bring a new set of reporting duties and a state office with direct authority over their safety practices. The January 1, 2027, registration deadline sets the first hard date in that process.
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