Has anyone done a breakdown of the various state-level AI bills that have been proposed?
I’ve seen many anti-regulation folks quote that there have been 1,000+ state AI bills, or similarly eyepopping numbers, but I’m pretty skeptical of this—I think it’s probably grouping a ton of different things together
It would be useful IMO to actually understand things like:
How many bills are distinct from each other, vs. basically the same thing but proposed in many individual states
What types of bills have been proposed—how corely AI-related are they, and how onerous are they to comply with
How many have actually passed (i.e., being proposed isn’t enough to cause patchwork regulation—maybe so many are proposed because they keep failing)
If anyone has done this, I’d love to be linked to it. If anyone wants to do it but isn’t feeling super confident, I’d be happy to give feedback
FWIW I think this doesn’t quite hit the need I was aiming to describe, so would still be very interested in analysis of the underlying data (these 200ish and/or the “1000+” claimed by others)
Has anyone done a breakdown of the various state-level AI bills that have been proposed?
I’ve seen many anti-regulation folks quote that there have been 1,000+ state AI bills, or similarly eyepopping numbers, but I’m pretty skeptical of this—I think it’s probably grouping a ton of different things together
It would be useful IMO to actually understand things like:
How many bills are distinct from each other, vs. basically the same thing but proposed in many individual states
What types of bills have been proposed—how corely AI-related are they, and how onerous are they to comply with
How many have actually passed (i.e., being proposed isn’t enough to cause patchwork regulation—maybe so many are proposed because they keep failing)
If anyone has done this, I’d love to be linked to it. If anyone wants to do it but isn’t feeling super confident, I’d be happy to give feedback
Not state level bills in general but I keep a close eye on developments around legal personhood definitions for models.
To that end there’s two relevant state bills I’m aware of:
Utah (Article I wrote on this here.)
Idaho (Never wrote an article on it since it passed in 2022 with little fanfare, but the bill can be found here.)
I’ve been pointed to this Google Sheet, which has a bit more than 200 state bills potentially pre-empted by a federal moratorium on state regulation
Here’s a press release about it: https://www.citizen.org/news/new-analysis-list-of-state-ai-and-tech-protections-impacted-by-cruz-moratorium/
And a visualization interface: https://stopaiban.org/
FWIW I think this doesn’t quite hit the need I was aiming to describe, so would still be very interested in analysis of the underlying data (these 200ish and/or the “1000+” claimed by others)
I’ll make a feed on AI Plans for policies/regulations