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 national security expertise.

To make matters worse, New York’s RAISE Act codifies the approach to AI regulation that California explicitly rejected. That’s because the RAISE Act much more closely resembles California’s highly controversial Senate Bill 1047 than its recently enacted Senate Bill 53.

Last year, Newsom rejected Senate Bill 1047 due to its vague........

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