New York

The New York RAISE Act, in plain language.

A safety and transparency law aimed at a very short list: the largest developers of frontier AI models. If your company merely uses AI, this one probably is not about you, but the deployer question underneath it still is.

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What it is

A frontier-developer law, not a general one.

The RAISE Act (Responsible AI Safety and Education Act) was passed by the New York legislature in 2025. It targets organizations that train the most compute-intensive and expensive frontier models, and it centers on safety protocols, incident disclosure, and transparency rather than everyday AI use.

What it asks

Duties for covered frontier developers.

Safety frameworks
Publish safety and security protocols describing how the developer manages the risk of critical harm from its frontier models.
Incident disclosure
Report certain safety incidents to state authorities within set timeframes.
Oversight and accountability
Keep records and answer to the New York Attorney General, with whistleblower protections for employees who raise safety concerns.
Which are you

Most companies are deployers, not frontier developers.

The threshold for a covered developer is defined by very high training compute and cost, a short list of the largest model builders. If your company uses AI tools built by others, you are almost certainly a deployer. Your exposure is less about building safe frontier models and more about knowing, and proving, which AI your team runs.

  • →Frontier developer: trains its own very large models above the law thresholds.
  • →Deployer: uses AI tools and models built by others. This is nearly everyone.
  • →The deployer question: which AI is in use, by whom, and with what data.
Built for deployers
Northbeams answers the deployer question. It shows which AI tools your team actually uses, ties each to a person, and keeps a signed record.
Where Northbeams fits

The deployer visibility side.

Northbeams is not a tool for building or certifying frontier models. It covers the deployer side: seeing and proving which AI your team uses day to day.

  • •Inventory: every AI tool across browser, desktop, CLI, and MCP, sorted sanctioned, unknown, or high-risk.
  • •Attribution: each use tied to a person and a team, not a mystery IP address.
  • •Evidence: an immutable, signed log you can hand to an auditor or your own counsel.
Common questions

Two quick answers.

Does the RAISE Act apply to my company?
Only if you are among the largest frontier model developers, defined by very high training compute and cost. Almost every other company is a deployer. Confirm your status with counsel.
When does it take effect?
It was passed by the New York legislature in 2025. Confirm its current status and effective date with counsel before planning around it.
This is a plain-language overview, not legal advice. Northbeams helps you know what AI you run and prove it, with an AI inventory, per-user attribution, and signed logs. It does not tell you what the RAISE Act requires of you or whether you are a covered developer. For your obligations, consult qualified counsel.

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