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RAISE Act

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New York's Responsible AI Safety and Education Act, a frontier-AI safety law binding large frontier developers to publish a safety framework and every frontier developer to report critical safety incidents; signed 19 December 2025 and taking effect 1 January 2027 after a March 2026 chapter amendment that placed oversight in an office within the Department of Financial Services (DFS) 12.

Developed in
ch. 08, Frontier-developer laws
Chapters
ch. 08, Regulatory Map · ch. 21, AI Laws Worldwide
Source
2 numbered references, listed below

Where it is used

4 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

  • Frontier model

    A general-purpose model at or near the capability frontier.

  • SB 53

    California's frontier-AI transparency law (TFAIA), in force 1 Jan 2026, covering frontier developers training models above 10^26 FLOP: all of them publish…

Sources

  1. [1] "Governor Hochul Signs Nation-Leading Legislation to Require AI Frameworks for AI Frontier Models" (RAISE Act, S6953B/A6453B, signed 19 Dec 2025; oversight office within the Department of Financial Services). Governor Kathy Hochul (New York State). 2025-12-19. https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-signs-nation-leading-legislation-require-ai-frameworks-ai-frontier-models (verified: primary)
  2. [2] "New York Finalizes RAISE Act for Frontier AI Models; Law Takes Effect January 1, 2027" (chapter amendment signed 27 Mar 2026; effective 1 Jan 2027; framework for large frontier developers, critical safety incident reports for every frontier developer; DFS oversight office). Wiley. 2026-04-03. https://www.wiley.law/alert-New-York-Finalizes-RAISE-Act-for-Frontier-AI-Models-Law-Takes-Effect-January-1-2027 (verified: secondary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). RAISE Act. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/raise-act. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026raiseact,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{RAISE Act}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/raise-act}
}