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Committee advances two AI bills seeking guardrails, training, and state data access
Summary
The General Law Committee voted to advance SB2 (enacting consumer protections for high-risk AI and criminalizing nonconsensual deepfakes) and SB1249 (authorizing state data access and a regulatory sandbox) after extended debate over business competitiveness and liability protections for small users.
The General Law Committee on March 21 approved a pair of bills aimed at regulating and supporting the use of artificial intelligence.
SB 2, described by sponsors as a “protect, promote and empower” package, would create transparency requirements for higher-risk AI systems, require notice when AI is used for important decisions, provide appeal and correction rights when automated decisions rely on inaccurate data, and criminalize nonconsensual intimate-image deep fakes. The bill would also authorize outreach and education by the attorney general, create training programs for students and small businesses and promote incentives and tools to help compliance.
Representative Lamar summarized the bill’s three pillars: “protect our protections ... promote ... (by) working with CASE to develop a tool to help people comply ...…
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