New Mexico SM 63

• Authority: New Mexico
• Parent authority: State governments
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. state and local documents
• Most recent activity: Defunct
• Most recent activity date: 2024-06-16

Risk subdomain coverage

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• Overreliance and unsafe use
• Loss of human agency and autonomy
• Governance failure
• Lack of capability or robustness

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has minimal coverage of approximately 3-4 subdomains, with focus on AI system safety failures (7.3 Lack of robustness), governance concerns (6.5 Governance failure), and human-computer interaction risks (5.1 Overreliance and unsafe use). The document addresses risks associated with AI-based structured decision-making tools in child welfare contexts.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• Health Care & Social Assistance
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the sector are described.

• Scientific Research & Development Services

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

The document primarily governs AI use in the Health Care and Social Assistance sector, specifically child welfare and protective services. It also has secondary coverage of Public Administration as it addresses government agency operations and decision-making processes.

Legislative Status

Soft Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a non-binding legislative memorial that requests action from the attorney general but creates no legal obligations or enforcement mechanisms. The document uses voluntary language ('be requested') throughout and has no penalties or sanctions.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: New Mexico State Senate; Senator David M. Gallegos
• Summary: The document is a Senate Memorial introduced by Senator David M. Gallegos in the 56th Legislature of New Mexico, making the state legislature the proposer of this governance instrument.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Deployer, AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Children, Youth and Families Department; New Mexico state agencies
• Summary: The document targets the Children, Youth and Families Department's use of AI-based structured decision-making tools in child welfare cases. The task force will study and evaluate this department's implementation and use of these AI systems.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Attorney General of New Mexico
• Summary: The Attorney General is requested to convene and lead the task force that will study and make recommendations regarding the AI tools, though this is a non-binding request rather than mandatory enforcement authority.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Task Force (to be convened); Legislative Health and Human Services Committee; Post-secondary educational institution (to be contracted)
• Summary: The task force will monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the AI tools, with support from a contracted research institution. The Legislative Health and Human Services Committee will receive the findings and recommendations.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Verify and Validate
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document focuses primarily on the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages, as it addresses the implementation and ongoing use of AI-based structured decision-making tools by the Children, Youth and Families Department. It also implicitly covers Verify and Validate through its mandate to evaluate effectiveness and outcomes.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• AI Systems
• Predictive AI
• Task-specific AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly mentions AI tools in the context of 'artificial intelligence tools as these structured decision-making tools' and focuses on AI systems used for child welfare decision-making. It does not mention specific AI categories like frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, or compute thresholds.