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Sponsor frames SB 212 as light-touch framework requiring AI risk plans for critical infrastructure
Summary
Senate Bill 212 would create a state framework for private use of computational technologies and require critical infrastructure facilities that deploy decision-making AI to develop risk-management plans. Sponsor said the bill aims to preserve innovation while prompting facilities to plan for failures and human fallback.
Senate Bill 212, presented by Senator Daniel Zolnikoff to the House Business and Labor Committee, would create a state policy framework for regulating private use of computational technologies including certain artificial-intelligence systems and data-center activity.
Zolnikoff said he wants a "light touch" approach that protects fundamental liberties while defining narrow exceptions for compelling government interests, such as conduct that deceives or defrauds the public, harms minors, or threatens…
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