Idaho House Bill 664 (Freedom From AI-Rigged Elections Act)

• Authority: Idaho
• Parent authority: State governments
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. state and local documents
• Most recent activity: Enacted
• Most recent activity date: 2024-03-25

Risk subdomain coverage

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

• False or misleading information
• Pollution of information ecosystem
• Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation

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

• Overreliance and unsafe use
• AI possessing dangerous capabilities

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has good coverage of approximately 4-5 subdomains, with strong focus on malicious actors (4.1 disinformation and surveillance, 4.3 fraud and manipulation), misinformation (3.1 false information, 3.2 information pollution), and human-computer interaction (5.1 overreliance). Coverage is concentrated in election integrity, synthetic media manipulation, and protection against AI-enabled deception.

Sector coverage

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

• Information
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

The document primarily governs the Information sector (media, broadcasting, telecommunications, internet services) and Public Administration (election processes). It regulates information content providers, interactive computer services, and media platforms that disseminate electioneering communications.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding state legislative act with mandatory prohibitions, enforcement mechanisms including injunctive relief and damages, and clear legal obligations on information content providers and media platforms.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Idaho State Legislature
• Summary: The document is a legislative act enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho, as stated in the enacting clause.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Developer, AI_Deployer, AI_Infrastructure_Provider
• Entities: information content providers; interactive computer services; media platforms; federally licensed broadcasting stations
• Summary: The act targets information content providers who create synthetic media, interactive computer services that disseminate such content, and media platforms that distribute electioneering communications. Specific exemptions are provided for federally licensed broadcasting stations under certain conditions.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, Affected_Stakeholder
• Entities: courts; candidates (as private enforcers)
• Summary: Enforcement is primarily through the judicial system via private right of action. Candidates whose speech or actions are deceptively represented can bring actions in court for injunctive relief and damages. Courts are explicitly encouraged to determine matters expediently.

Monitor

• Summary: The document does not establish any specific monitoring body or oversight mechanism. Enforcement relies entirely on affected candidates bringing legal actions when they become aware of violations.

AI Lifecycle Stages

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

• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document focuses primarily on the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, as it regulates the publication and dissemination of synthetic media in electioneering communications and establishes ongoing disclosure requirements. It does not address earlier stages like planning, data collection, or model development.

Technical Scope

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

• Generative AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly mentions synthetic media created through generative adversarial network techniques and other digital technology. It focuses on generative AI capabilities (audio and video generation) but does not reference AI models, AI systems, frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, compute thresholds, or open-weight models.