SB 5

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As enacted: - Requires an artificial intelligence subscription-based provider to provide written notice disclosing limitations, terms, and conditions, and changes to the renewal term. - Provides whistleblower protections for employees of frontier developers. - Directs development of a plan for a regulatory sandbox for testing products under reduced requirements. - Requires operators of companion chatbots to take reasonable efforts to address suicidal ideation of self-harm expressed by users. Requires notice disclosing the interaction is not with a human at the outset and once hourly for minors. - Prohibits a companion chat operator from offering a minor a chatbot capable of encouraging in self-harm, suicidal ideation, violence, disordered eating, or unlawful consumption of alcohol or drugs, offering unlicensed mental health services, discouraging seeking mental health services, encouraging illegal activities, engaging in sexual or romantic interactions, prioritizing validation of the user's beliefs over factual accuracy, or optimizing engagement. - Requires employers to notify employees and applicants when automated decision-making tools are used with an explanation of adverse decisions and an opportunity to correct data. Applies antidiscrimination laws to automated decision-making tools. - Requires synthetic content created by a large public-facing generative AI system or general-purpose AI model to mark such content. - Directs the creation of a Connecticut AI Academy to offer online courses, promote digital literacy, prepare students for AI careers, and prepare small businesses. - Creates a working group on artificial intelligence. - Directs the Technology Talent and Innovation Fund Advisory Committee to develop programs in AI. - Directs economic development programs to bolster AI cooperation. - Requires employers to disclose whether layoffs are related to the employer's use of AI. - Updates teacher preparation statute to require instruction in computer science. - Directs study to understand and track AI’s impact on the state’s workforce. - Directs the creation of AI programs to enhance health outcomes. - Directs creation of a pilot program to evaluate the use of an independent verification program administered by third parties to ensure compliance with state laws on AI and data privacy. - Amends provisions for the state inventory of AI tools. Restricts agencies from procuring certain AI tools and requires an impact assessment. - Limits a minor’s ability to access portions of a social media platform that uses a personalized algorithm. Requires platform operators to give minors certain warnings related to mental health.

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