Powerful AI comes with catastrophic risks – but Big Tech billionaires love
to “move fast and break things”.

With the stroke of her pen, New York Governor Hochul could make a massive
difference to mitigate the risks of AI going rogue.

Ask the Governor to sign the Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE)
Act into law.

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John,

Artificial Intelligence (AI) could teach a beginner to make a biological
weapon or even trigger a deadly pandemic – and that’s what the companies
who make chatbots say!

Right now, a bill to help prevent such nightmare scenarios is on New York
Governor Hochul’s desk, but a tiny bunch of tech oligarchs is lobbying to
stop her from signing it into law.

The Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act passed the New York
State Legislature with overwhelming bipartisan support in June. Polls show
84% of New Yorkers also support the bill’s goals. Still, it’s not a done
deal. Tech billionaires could sink the bill if we don’t raise our voices
to counter their spin:

[ [link removed] ]Ask Governor Hochul to sign the RAISE Act, because the risks for us all
are just too much to leave it up to Big Tech.

The RAISE Act would make new rules for AI titans like Elon Musk's xAI,
OpenAI, Google, and Meta – corporations training AI software with
eye-watering amounts of computing power. Instead of making it up as they
go, those “large developers” would be forced to take more care about
catastrophic risks of AI, and would face serious fines if they break the
rules.

Just in the last month, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and OpenAI’s Sam Altman have
admitted that there’s an AI investment bubble. As the bubble threatens to
burst, the pressure on AI companies to cut corners, cover-up mistakes, or
ignore warnings, is only going to increase. We urgently need this law.

It’s not perfect, but no law is. The RAISE Act makes meaningful progress
on AI safety, and would continue to build a state movement to properly
govern AI in the absence of any federal legislation.

[ [link removed] ]Ask the New York Governor to sign the RAISE Act into law, to mitigate
the risks of AI going rogue.

Big Tech’s lobbying bulldozer succeeded in California last year, but
people power built back and helped secure an AI Safety win there just days
ago. Let’s all lend a hand, and RAISE the bar on AI regulation.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Eoin, Vicky and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters TechCrunch 13
June 2025

[ [link removed] ]Catastrophic AI Scenarios Future of Life Institute 01 February 2024

[ [link removed] ]xAI's new safety framework is dreadful AI Lab Watch 08 September 2025

 

 

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