CT SB00005: An Act Concerning Online Safety. Verified

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Connecticut's SB00005 aims to enhance online safety through comprehensive AI regulations. It establishes an Artificial Intelligence Policy Office, a Connecticut Technology Advisory Board, modifies workforce development initiatives, prohibits AI from modifying collective bargaining agreements, includes the Artificial Intelligence Learning Laboratory Program, requires subscription-based AI providers to make consumer disclosures, prohibits certain uses of automated employment-related decision processes that constitute unlawful discriminatory practices, and requires the Office of Health Strategy to create a program using AI systems to enhance health outcomes. The Attorney General, Insurance Commissioner, and Commissioner of Consumer Protection are required to accept applications for safe harbor programs. Synthetic digital content must be detectable as such. The bill also modifies the Technology Talent and Innovation Fund Advisory Committee and includes instruction in topics such as the responsible use of emerging technologies in teacher certification preparation programs.

Key Provisions

• Establishes an Artificial Intelligence Policy Office overseen by an Artificial Intelligence Policy Director.
• Requires subscription-based AI providers to make consumer disclosures.
• Mandates that synthetic digital content be detectable as such.
• Prohibits certain uses of automated employment-related decision processes that constitute unlawful discriminatory practices.
• Creates an AI Academy and various workforce development programs.
• Requires the Department of Economic and Community Development to develop and implement a program to bolster artificial intelligence cooperation.
• Establishes an Artificial Intelligence Workforce Research Hub.
• Establishes a Connecticut Technology Advisory Board.
• Requires the Office of Health Strategy to create a program using AI systems to enhance health outcomes.
• Involves the Attorney General, Insurance Commissioner, and Commissioner of Consumer Protection in accepting applications for safe harbor programs.
• Modifies the 'computer science education and workforce development account', the Technology Talent and Innovation Fund Advisory Committee, and the economic development strategic plan.
• Establishes an artificial intelligence working group.
• Requires the Office of Workforce Strategy to develop, implement, and promote programs to improve the skills of the state's workforce in relation to artificial intelligence, including a plan for technologist apprenticeships.
• Establishes an Artificial Intelligence Learning Laboratory Program.
• Requires dissemination of information concerning the Connecticut AI Academy by various state agencies.
• Prohibits AI technologies from modifying or impairing collective bargaining agreements or the role of a designated employee organization.
• Includes the designation of artificial intelligence fellows.
• Includes instruction in topics such as the responsible use of emerging technologies in teacher certification preparation programs.
• Requires frontier developers to implement specific internal processes for managing frontier models as detailed in the bill.

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