In one paragraph
Georgia's SB 167 would add a new Chapter 16 to Title 10 regulating automated decision systems used for consequential decisions (education, employment, essential government services, financial or lending services, healthcare, housing, insurance and legal services). Developers could not make available a system that results in algorithmic discrimination and would have to provide information to the Attorney General. According to its title, deployers would also have duties, and the Attorney General would enforce. The bill was read and referred on February 13, 2025 and died when the session ended.
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What it means for business
None: the bill did not pass. Had it been enacted, developers and deployers of automated decision systems used in consequential decisions affecting Georgia consumers would have faced anti-discrimination and disclosure duties.
Key provisions
- Would define 'algorithmic discrimination' as use of an AI system that discriminates or causes disparate impact in a consequential decision on protected grounds, with self-testing and diversity-expansion carve-outs
- Would bar developers from selling or making available to deployers an automated decision system that results in algorithmic discrimination (10-16-2(a))
- Except as otherwise provided, would require developers to give the Attorney General information including a statement of reasonably foreseeable uses and known harmful or inappropriate uses, the purpose and intended benefits, and high-level summaries of the types of training data (captured text is truncated after this point)
- According to its title, would also provide for deployer evaluations, consumer notices, trade secret protections, rule making, an open-records exemption and Attorney General enforcement
- Last action: Senate Read and Referred on February 13, 2025; dead
Latest legislative action
Feb 13, 2025. Senate Read and Referred; died when the Georgia General Assembly's 2025-2026 session ended April 2, 2026
Sponsors (showing 5 of 48)
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Barry Loudermilk | Primary |
| Ben Watson R | Primary |
| Billy Hickman R | Primary |
| Bruce Thompson | Primary |
| Carden Summers R | Primary |
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