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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.

RAISE Act: mentions per chapter4 mentions of the term across 4 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Cross-referenced chapterOther chapter08 Regulatory Map: 1 mention08 Regulatory Map110 Reading List: 1 mention10 Reading List117 Incidents: 1 mention17 Incidents121 AI Laws Worldwide: 1 mention21 AI Laws Worldwide1No mentions in the other 19 chaptersSource: the Body of Knowledgev0.5.0
RAISE Act: mentions per chapter4 mentions of the term across 4 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Cross-referenced chapterOther chapter000102030405060708 Regulatory Map: 1 mention10810 Reading List: 1 mention11011121314151617 Incidents: 1 mention11718192021 AI Laws Worldwide: 1 mention1212223Source: the Body of Knowledge v0.5.0
Mentions per chapter How often each chapter names the term, with the chapters the glossary cross-references drawn solid. The longest bar is where to read the term in use; bars spread across many chapters mark a term that runs through the discipline.
Mentions as a table
Mentions of RAISE Act per chapter
ChapterMentionsCross-referenced
00 Preface0No
01 Definition0No
02 Why Now0No
03 Values & Principles0No
04 The Stack0No
05 Patterns0No
06 The Role0No
07 Maturity Model0No
08 Regulatory Map1Yes
10 Reading List1No
11 AI Defined0No
12 Governance Program0No
13 Risk Management0No
14 Development0No
15 Deployment0No
16 Fairness & XAI0No
17 Incidents1No
18 EU AI Act0No
19 Privacy & AI0No
20 Existing Law0No
21 AI Laws Worldwide1Yes
22 Principles & Standards0No
23 AI Agents0No
  • Frontier model

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

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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}
}