Senate Bill S8209

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Enacts the New York artificial intelligence bill of rights

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Internet And Technology Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S8209 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8129
Current Committee:
Senate Internet And Technology
Law Section:
State Technology Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art IV §§401 - 409, St Tech L

2023-S8209 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the New York artificial intelligence bill of rights to provide residents of the state with rights and protections to ensure that any system making decisions without human intervention impacting their lives do so lawfully, properly, and with meaningful oversight.

2023-S8209 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8209 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8209
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Internet and Technology
 
 AN ACT to amend the state technology law, in relation  to  enacting  the
   New York artificial intelligence bill of rights
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "New York artificial intelligence bill of rights".
   §  2.  Legislative  intent.  This  legislature  hereby finds that this
 generation of humans is the first in history  to  have  the  ability  to
 create  technologies that can make decisions which previously could have
 only been made by humans. States and  countries  across  the  world  are
 grappling  with  critical questions of how we can use these technologies
 to solve our problems, how we can avoid or manage the new problems  that
 these  technologies  may  create,  and how we can control these powerful
 technologies.
   Therefore,  the  legislature  declares  that  any  New  York  resident
 affected  by  any  system making decisions without human intervention be
 entitled to certain rights and protections to  ensure  that  the  system
 impacting  their  lives  do  so  lawfully, properly, and with meaningful
 oversight.
   Among these rights and protections are  (i)  the  right  to  safe  and
 effective  systems; (ii) protections against algorithmic discrimination;
 (iii) protections against abusive data practices; (iv) the right to have
 agency over one's data; (v) the right to know when an  automated  system
 is  being  used;  (vi)  the right to understand how and why an automated
 system contributed to outcomes that impact one; (vii) the right  to  opt
 out of an automated system; and (viii) the right to work with a human in
 the place of an automated system.
   The  legislature also finds that automated systems will continue to be
 developed and evolve both within the state and outside the state. It  is
 therefore  critical that New York does not overburden the development of
 innovative systems that better the state and its  residents,  nor  drive
 the development of such systems to foreign states or countries with less
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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