New Hampshire House Bill 1688

• Authority: New Hampshire
• Parent authority: State governments
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. state and local documents
• Most recent activity: Enacted
• Most recent activity date: 2024-07-12

Risk subdomain coverage

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

• Unfair discrimination and misrepresentation
• Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
• Overreliance and unsafe use
• Loss of human agency and autonomy
• Governance failure
• Lack of transparency or interpretability

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

• Compromise of privacy
• False or misleading information
• Lack of capability or robustness

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has good coverage of approximately 8-9 subdomains, with strong focus on discrimination (1.1), surveillance and malicious use (4.1, 4.3), human-computer interaction (5.1, 5.2), governance (6.5), and AI system safety (7.3, 7.4). Coverage is concentrated in discrimination prevention, misuse prevention, human oversight, and transparency domains.

Sector coverage

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

• 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
• Educational Services
• National Security

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This legislation governs AI use across all state government operations, primarily affecting Public Administration (excluding National Security) with comprehensive coverage, and National Security with moderate coverage through law enforcement provisions. The regulation applies to government agencies rather than private sector industries.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding state statute enacted by the New Hampshire legislature with mandatory obligations, compliance requirements, and enforcement mechanisms through state agencies.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: New Hampshire Senate; New Hampshire House of Representatives
• Summary: The document is a state statute enacted by the New Hampshire legislature, as indicated by the enactment clause and approval process.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Deployer, AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: State agencies; department of information technology; legislative and judicial branches of state government; law enforcement; state-funded institutions of higher learning
• Summary: The law explicitly applies to all state agencies including legislative, judicial, and executive branches, with specific exemptions for research institutions and consumer devices.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: department of information technology
• Summary: The department of information technology is designated as the primary enforcement body responsible for receiving compliance reports, maintaining code of ethics, and reporting to state leadership.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: department of information technology; governor; speaker of the house of representatives; president of the senate
• Summary: The department of information technology monitors compliance through annual reporting, with oversight by the governor and legislative leadership who receive compliance reports.

AI Lifecycle Stages

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

• Plan and Design
• Verify and Validate
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily addresses the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages, with requirements for human review before deployment of irreversible decisions and ongoing compliance monitoring. It also implicitly covers Plan and Design through prohibited use cases and Verify and Validate through required human review processes.

Technical Scope

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

• AI Systems
• Generative AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly defines and covers AI systems and generative AI. It does not mention frontier AI, general purpose AI, task-specific AI, foundation models, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds. The focus is on AI capabilities and applications rather than technical classifications.