New York AI law: companions and future frontier duties
A bounded reference to selected enacted measures and their limits, updated October 5, 2026. Provision verification dates appear separately from this analysis date.
Source status reviewed
October 5, 2026
Published analysis updated
October 5, 2026
Scope
Selected measures; statewide review incomplete
Selected laws in force
In force since 2025-11-05 · provision verified 2026-10-05
AI Companion Model Safety
General Business Law article 47 requires covered AI companions to include a self-harm detection and crisis referral protocol. Operators must notify users that they are not communicating with a human at the start of an interaction, subject to the daily limit, and every three hours during continuing interactions.
Enacted March 27, 2026 · core duties begin January 1, 2027
RAISE Act · 2026 amendment and future operation
Chapter 96 revises the frontier developer framework and changes the underlying act’s operation to January 1, 2027. The timing amendment itself took effect immediately. Main replacement provisions take effect with the underlying act. These future core duties are excluded from the in-force export.
Selected for its relationship to the enacted companion law. This is a bounded selection, not a complete session survey.
Passed both chambers · enactment not recorded on official page as of October 5, 2026
Additional companion safeguards for minors
The official page records passage in both chambers by June 5, 2026 and continues to display “Passed Senate & Assembly.” Its proposed safeguards for minors are not represented here as enacted or operative duties.
Companion protocols address self-harm expressions and crisis referrals.
Human identity disclosure
Recurring notices distinguish an AI companion from a human interlocutor.
Analysis · October 5, 2026
New York separates application-level companion safeguards from future frontier developer duties. A crisis referral protocol is a statutory design requirement; this reference does not assess its clinical effectiveness. The attorney general can seek injunctions and civil penalties under article 47.
Coverage still under review
Complete current session, government automated-decision, employment, insurance, rules, enforcement, and litigation review. Selected current and concluded bills, agency rules, enforcement, and litigation have not been comprehensively screened. An omitted measure is not a finding that no relevant law exists.
Scope and method
This update expands the existing selected-law baseline using official legislative texts, codification, bill histories, and agency material. It distinguishes the act’s effective date from later duties and does not infer implementation from the passage of a deadline.
The analysis date is not a new verification date for every provision. Earlier dates remain where final text or date evidence was inaccessible. Only the separately identified in-force records enter the national export; proposed, future, and uncertain measures are excluded.