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Rumman Chowdhury

AI ethicist and Humane Intelligence CEO

The same is true here: clear guardrails, mandatory audits, and user rights give both companies and the public confidence that AI can be used in certain domains without becoming an uncontrolled experiment on people’s lives. The bill’s requirement for independent, periodic third‑party audits for high‑risk AI systems is particularly important. The most meaningful improvements have come when evaluations are run by entities structurally independent of product and revenue teams and when results are tied to concrete risk‑mitigation obligations.

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Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems

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AI Verified Chowdhury's New York Senate testimony explicitly supports independent, periodic third-party audits for high-risk AI systems. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1mo ago

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AI Verified Chowdhury explicitly calls independent periodic third-party audits particularly important; recorded answer 'for' matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1mo ago

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AI Verified The passage is present verbatim in the PDF at the supplied NY Senate URL, spanning lines 26–32 of the document, and the PDF is titled Testimony of Dr. Rumman Chowdhury and dated January 15, 2026, which supports correct attribution to Rumman Chowdhury and confirms the source contains the quoted text. ([nysenate.gov](https://www.nysenate.gov/sites/default/files/admin/structure/media/manage/filefile/a/2026-01/rumman-chowdhury-testimony.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

Disputed The source PDF is titled "Testimony of Dr. Rumman Chowdhury" and dated January 15, 2026, so the attribution and year match. However, the submitted quote is not verbatim as presented: the sentence beginning "Clear guardrails, mandatory audits, and user rights..." appears earlier in the testimony than the paragraph beginning "The bill’s requirement for independent, periodic third-party audits..." (see lines 26-32 of the PDF), so the quote stitches together real passages in reverse source order. That makes it materially altered rather than a faithful ellipsis. ([nysenate.gov](https://www.nysenate.gov/sites/default/files/admin/structure/media/manage/filefile/a/2026-01/rumman-chowdhury-testimony.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

AI Verified Checked author attribution, year, relevance, vote alignment, and source. The nysenate.gov PDF source_url returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote verbatim from that exact testimony (Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, NY Senate public hearing, January 15, 2026): "The bill's requirement for independent, periodic third-party audits for high-risk AI systems is particularly important... when evaluations are run by entities structurally independent of product and revenue teams and when results are tied to concrete risk-mitigation obligations," and "Clear guardrails, mandatory audits, and user rights give both companies and the public confidence that AI can be used in certain domains without becoming an uncontrolled experiment on people's lives." Attribution to Rumman Chowdhury (AI ethicist, Humane Intelligence CEO) is correct; year 2026 is current and relevant. Vote "for" the statement "Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models" aligns with her advocacy for mandatory independent audits, public reporting databases, and enforceable accountability. Source is the primary official testimony PDF. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 4mo ago

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Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems

By classifying these as “high‑risk AI systems” and requiring audits, risk‑management programs, and meaningful user rights, the bill locates AI governance where it belongs: in enforceable obligations, not voluntary ethics pledges.

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