Connecticut Senate Bill 1103

In Connecticut, Senate Bill 1103 has advanced through committee. The bill would establish an Office of Artificial Intelligence to oversee the use of AI systems by the state and create an AI Bill of Rights outlining ethical practices for the development and deployment of the systems. The Department of Administrative Services will annually conduct an inventory of all systems that employ AI and are in use by any state agency. The inventory will be made publicly available on the state's open data portal. The Judicial Department also will conduct an inventory of its systems that employ AI that will be publicly available on the department's Internet website. The Department of Administrative Services will also perform ongoing assessments of systems that employ AI and are in use by state agencies to ensure that no such system will result in any unlawful discrimination or disparate impact. The Office of Policy and Management and the Judicial Department will develop and establish policies and procedures concerning their development, procurement, implementation, utilization, and ongoing assessment of systems that employ AI. The policies and procedures include those that are sufficient to ensure that no such system results in any unlawful discrimination against all individuals or group of individuals or has any unlawful disparate impact on any individual or group of individuals on the basis of any actual or perceived differentiating characteristic. No state agency, including the Judicial Department, can implement any system that employs AI unless it has performed an impact assessment to ensure the system will not result in any unlawful discrimination or disparate impact or if the head of the agency determines that the system will result in any unlawful discrimination or disparate impact. There will be a working group to engage stakeholders and experts. The voting members will be appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives (1), president pro tempore of the Senate (1), majority leader of the House of Representatives (1), majority leader of the Senate (1), minority leader of the House of Representatives (1), minority leader of the Senate (1), House chairperson of the joint standing committee of the General Assembly (1), Senate chairperson of the joint standing committee of the General Assembly (1), and Governor (2). All voting members must have professional experience or academic qualifications in matters pertaining to AI, automated systems, government policy or another related field. The working group will submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly. The working group will terminate on the date that the working group submits the report or February 1, 2024, whichever is later.

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