Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes artificial intelligence regulations in Connecticut.

Highlights:

• Establishes various requirements concerning artificial intelligence systems (Sec. 1).

• Requires the Department of Economic and Community Development to (Sec. 1):

• Establish an artificial intelligence regulatory sandbox program;

• Plan to establish a technology transfer program;

• Establish a confidential computing cluster;

• Conduct a "CT AI Symposium", and design an algorithmic computer model;

• Require the Board of Regents for Higher Education to establish a "Connecticut AI Academy" and require the Labor Department and home visiting programs overseen by the Commissioner of Early Childhood, to provide information concerning said academy;

• Establish a Connecticut Technology Advisory Board, 

• Modify the "computer science education and workforce development account;

• Modify the Technology Talent and Innovation Fund Advisory Committee;

• Establish an artificial intelligence systems fellowship program;

• Establish an artificial intelligence task force;

• Require state agencies to take various actions regarding generative artificial intelligence, and

• Prohibit the dissemination of certain synthetic images.

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect beginning October 1, 2025 (Sec. 1).

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