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Patricia Fahy

New York State Senator for the 46th District and sponsor of the 2026 TERMINATOR Act on frontier-AI safety oversight.

A large frontier developer shall provide the independent safety evaluator access reasonably necessary to conduct a meaningful technical evaluation, including, where reasonably necessary, access to relevant model checkpoints, interfaces, documentation, testing environments, fine-tuning capabilities, and versions or configurations of the model in which safeguards are disabled or materially reduced.

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Sen. Patricia Fahy, New York Senate Bill S10701 (the TERMINATOR Act), introduced September 18, 2026, §1430(4). The official bill page identifies Fahy as sponsor and the provision requires large frontier developers to give independent safety evaluators the listed internal-model and evaluation access.

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AI labs should give independent evaluators employee-like access

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AI Verified Quote requires a large frontier developer to give an independent safety evaluator access to checkpoints, interfaces, documentation, testing environments, fine-tuning, and reduced-safeguard configurations—employee-like access. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 19d ago

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AI Verified Recorded for: the bill language requires frontier developers to provide independent evaluators the specified internal access. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 19d ago

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AI Verified The official New York Senate S10701 page identifies Patricia Fahy as sponsor and its bill text contains this provision verbatim; stored author, date, text, and URL match. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 19d ago

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