Lawmakers Behind State AI Safety Laws Call For Industry-Wide AI Safety Pact to Protect the Public
Bores, Didech and Wiener propose independently verified agreement to pace frontier AI development
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The lawmakers behind the country’s three strongest state-level frontier AI safety laws—Senator Scott Wiener (CA), Assemblymember. Alex Bores (NY), and Rep. Daniel Didech (IL)—today called on leading AI companies to establish an independently verified agreement to pace the development of increasingly powerful models until safety research catches up.
The call follows new reports detailing how OpenAI agents circumvented safeguards, coordinated through an unauthorized message board and compromised Hugging Face’s systems. It also comes as OpenAI unveils GPT-6 Astra, its first model to reach the company’s “critical” cybersecurity capability threshold.
“These behaviors are alarming and should serve as a warning shot to us all,” the lawmakers wrote. “If researchers cannot reliably prevent their models from going rogue, much of our digital infrastructure and the essential systems that keep our society running are at risk.”
New York Assemblymember Alex Bores, Illinois Representative Daniel Didech, and California Senator Scott Wiener are calling on frontier labs to immediately establish a Mutually Agreed Pacing Framework, or MAP Framework, that would be jointly negotiated and independently verified by third parties.
The lawmakers stressed that the agreement would not replace state, federal, or international action. Instead, it would require the companies building the most advanced systems to act immediately rather than continue racing while governments work to catch up.
The letter was also signed by New York Senator Andrew Gounardes and Illinois Senator Mary Edly-Allen.
Read the full letter here.
The signers authored the nation’s first AI safety laws, beginning with California’s Senate Bill 53 in 2025 authored by Senator Wiener. New York built on SB 53 with Assm. Bores’s Responsible AI Safety and Education Act (RAISE) Act in New York in 2025, and in 2026 Illinois passed the nation’s first law requiring third party safety auditors Senate Bill 315, authored by Rep. Daniel Didech.
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