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Hochul statement on frontier-AI risk: says New York has "set a national standard" for transparency and accountability, accuses the Trump administration of frameworks lacking transparency and incident reporting, and calls on Washington to set national standards
A 5:56 p.m. Sept. 9 statement, four paragraphs, no new state action. Hochul says that when the people building the most powerful AI systems are "sounding the alarm about potentially catastrophic risks," government has a responsibility to act; that the Trump administration has "failed to meet this moment"; that New York has stepped up on frontier-model transparency (a reference to the RAISE Act she signed in 2025, not named in the statement); and that "states cannot solve this problem alone." The statement does not identify what prompted it.
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