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The 194th General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Bill S.37 194th (Current)

An Act promoting economic development with emerging artificial intelligence models and safety

By Mr. Finegold, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 37) of Barry R. Finegold for legislation to promote economic development with emerging artificial intelligence models and safety. Advanced Information Technology, the Internet and Cybersecurity.

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Bill Information

Presenter:
Barry R. Finegold

AI; frontier models

Establishes guardrails for the development and deployment of frontier artificial intelligence models in the Commonwealth by:

  • Creating an Artificial Intelligence Innovation Trust Fund to support the work of MassTech's AI Hub and establish or promote AI entrepreneurship programs
  • Requiring the developers of the largest AI models to internally assess their capability for harm
  • Charging the highest-risk models with having a killswitch to fully and promptly shut down the entire system and any spinoffs in the case of catastrophic misuse
  • Requiring developers of these models to adopt and submit to the AGO safety and security protocols that outline the known risks, how those risks will be tested, and how the developer will implement a full shutdown if needed; these policies need to be regularly updated and a compliance statement submitted to the AGO annually
  • Banning developers from using or making publicly available models that have an unreasonable risk of creating a catastrophic harm
  • Requiring operators of computing clusters (large data centers that can be used to train AI models) to collect identifying information on consumers using their sites to train models and be able to implement a killswitch if a damaging model is created (also known as Know Your Customer provisions)
  • Allowing the AG to bring a civil action against developers/clusters/investigators that violate the chapter
  • Creating protections for whistleblowers, including banning NDAs which specifically disallow an employee from bringing a violation to the AG and prohibiting retaliation
  • Requiring workforce development planning related to known or reasonably foreseeable skills gaps related to AI development and deployment
* The bill summary was created by the Primary Sponsor of the bill; no committee of the General Court certifies the accuracy of its contents.

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