SB 5

As drafted on 2/26/2026: - Requires an artificial intelligence subscription-based provider to provide written notice disclosing limitations, terms, and conditions, and changes to renewal term. - Provides whistleblower protections for employees of frontier developers. - Establishes an Artificial Intelligence Policy Office to administer a learning laboratory sandbox program. - 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. - 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 interactions, prioritizing validation of the user's beliefs over factual accuracy, or optimisizing engagement. - Requires employers to notify employees when automated decision-making tools are used, with an opportunity to correct data and appeal an adverse decision. - Requires synthetic content created by an AI system or general-purpose AI model to mark such content. - Prohibits the use of AI to modify or impair the rights of workers, reduce wages, or assume duties under a collective bargaining agreement. - 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. - Directs tracking employment data to evaluate the impact of AI on the workforce. - Directs the creation of AI programs to enhance health outcomes. - Amends the consumer data privacy law to allow controllers, processors, social media platforms, licensed insurers, and AI users to apply for a safe harbor program. NOTE: The original bill draft related to expanding online class offerings.