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Maura Healey

Governor of Massachusetts.

At the same time, I also urge the Conference Committee to include a requirement for meaningful independent evaluation of the safety of frontier AI models. When the potential risks are this significant, self-assessment alone is not sufficient. Independent technical review should be an important part of a credible AI safety framework.

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Governor Maura T. Healey, letter to the Massachusetts Legislature’s Conference Committee on the Mass Wins Act, “AI Safety & Transparency within the Mass Wins Act (§164 of S.3228),” September 17, 2026, pp. 2–3.

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AI Unverifiable The cited Massachusetts letter PDF could not be retrieved, and an independent source containing the complete stored passage was not available. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 19d ago

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