After California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed his state’s AI transparency bill into law several New York policymakers urged Gov. Kathy Hochul to do the same to the Responsible AI Safety and Education, or RAISE, Act. To supporters of the RAISE Act, that decision is an opportunity to cement New York’s role in creating an AI national standard for the rest of the country to follow. Too bad the RAISE Act isn’t a model of AI regulation worth pursuing.

Both the RAISE Act and California’s newly minted Senate Bill 53 meddle in regulatory activity best left for Congress. In different ways, both bills govern how AI companies should prepare for and disclose “chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon” risks. But those are questions are best left to the policymakers with the necessary natio

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