T2026-2602
Introduction
This bill would make it unlawful to market, offer for sale, sell, or deploy an artificial intelligence (AI) model in New York City that has not received third-party validation or does not have a technical capability to be shut down by a human operator. Validation would be based on topics such as task performance, disparate impact, data privacy, and safety, including the functionality of a shut-down capability. A validator would also have to certify and disclose to the AI model developer and to Cyber Command whether the AI model is validated, or ready for deployment, and any interest the validator has in the AI model. Cyber Command would have to promulgate rules regarding bill implementation and validator qualifications. Civil penalties could range up to $25,000, with a $25,000 fixed civil penalty, per instance, for an AI model being marketed, offered for sale, sold, or deployed without validation or a shut-down capability and for a validator’s falsification of a validation.
- Title
- Third-party validation and shut-down capability of artificial intelligence models.
- Type
- Introduction
- Status
- Introduced
- Committee
- Committee of the Whole
- Introduced
- 2026-10-08
Heard in committee
- Committee of the Whole Committee
Sponsors
- Julie Menin Council Member, District 5 (Manhattan)
Money behind the sponsors
Money spent in the sponsors' 2025 election races, not on this bill. Outside spending is independent of the campaigns; PAC gifts went directly to a sponsor's campaign. NYC Campaign Finance Board.
- Julie Menin 8 outside spenders · 36 PAC gifts $636,397