New York Senate Bill S09542 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9542  IN SENATE May 16, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the publication of a digital or physical newspaper, magazine, or period- ical which was wholly or partially produced or edited through the use of artificial intelligence without significant human oversight The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 338 to read as follows: 3 § 338. Publishing of newspapers, magazines, and periodicals; genera- 4 tive artificial intelligence disclosure. 1. Nothing shall be published 5 within a digital or physical newspaper, magazine, or periodical which 6 was wholly or partially produced or edited through the use of artificial 7 intelligence without significant human oversight. 8 2. For the purposes of this section, "artificial intelligence" shall 9 mean the use of machine learning technology, software, automation, and 10 algorithms to perform tasks, to make rules and/or predictions based on 11 existing data sets and instructions, including, but not limited to: 12 (a) Any artificial system that performs tasks under varying and unpre- 13 dictable circumstances without significant human oversight, or that can 14 learn from experience and improve performance when exposed to data sets; 15 (b) An artificial system developed in computer software, physical 16 hardware, or other context that solves tasks requiring human-like 17 perception, cognition, planning, learning, communication, or physical 18 action; 19 (c) An artificial system designed to think or act like a human, 20 including cognitive architectures and neural networks; 21 (d) A set of techniques, including machine learning, that is designed 22 to approximate a cognitive task; and/or 23 (e) An artificial system designed to act rationally, including an 24 intelligent software agent or embodied robot that achieves goals using 25 perception, planning, reasoning, learning, communicating, decision 26 making, and acting. 27 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 28 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15637-01-4