June 16, 2025

“RTFB: The RAISE Act” by Zvi

15 minutes

The RAISE Act has overwhelmingly passed the New York Assembly (95-1 among Democrats and 24-21 among Republicans) and New York Senate (37-1 among Democrats, 21-0 among Republicans).

Governor Kathy Hochul now has to decide whether or not to sign it, which she has 10 non-Sunday days to do once the bill is delivered (30 if they’re out of session), but the bill might not be delivered for six months.

The aim of this post, now that we are seeing increasing public discussion, is to go through the bill to understand exactly what the bill would and would not do.

Overall Take

The RAISE Act is centrally a transparency bill. It requires frontier model developers to maintain, publish and adhere to (one might say ‘open source’ except that they can redact details for various reasons) a safety and security protocol (SSP) that outlines how they will, before releasing their frontier [...]

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Outline:

(00:45) Overall Take

(03:04) RTFB: The RAISE Act

(03:26) Definitions: Frontier Model

(07:24) Definitions: Critical Harm

(08:59) Definition: Safety Incident

(10:22) You Have To Report Safety Incidents The Way We Report Cybersecurity Breaches

(11:31) Definition: Safety and Security Protocol (SSP)

(12:31) You Have To Have And Implement An SSP

(13:44) You Have To Not Release Models That Would Create An Unreasonable Risk Of Critical Harm

(13:59) You Shall Not Knowingly Make False Or Materially Misleading Statements or Omissions

(14:10) What Are The Consequences?

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First published:

June 16th, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dceyoApFTEsaeTByd/rtfb-the-raise-act

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