Tennessee House Bill 2163 (Sexual Exploitation of Children)

• Authority: Tennessee
• Parent authority: State governments
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. state and local documents
• Most recent activity: Enacted
• Most recent activity date: 2024-05-13

Risk subdomain coverage

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

• Exposure to toxic content
• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has minimal coverage, focusing narrowly on a single subdomain: sexual exploitation of children (1.2 Toxic Content). It addresses the specific harm of AI-generated child sexual abuse material by expanding legal definitions to include AI-created, adapted, or modified images. No other risk domains are substantively addressed.

Sector coverage

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

• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This legislation does not govern AI use within specific economic sectors. Rather, it is a criminal law amendment that applies universally across all sectors by expanding the definition of child sexual exploitation material to include AI-generated or modified images. The law targets criminal conduct regardless of the perpetrator's industry or sector.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding state statute enacted by the Tennessee General Assembly that amends criminal law definitions with mandatory legal effect and criminal penalties for violations.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Tennessee General Assembly
• Summary: The document is a legislative act enacted by the Tennessee General Assembly, which is the state legislative body with authority to propose and enact state laws.

Target

• Entity Types: Affected_Stakeholder
• Summary: The law targets individuals who create, possess, or distribute child sexual abuse material, including AI-generated or modified images. While no specific entities are named, the targets are those who would violate sexual exploitation of children statutes.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: While not explicitly named in this amendment, enforcement authority lies with Tennessee's criminal justice system including prosecutors, law enforcement, and courts who enforce Title 39 (Criminal Offenses) and Title 40 (Criminal Procedure).

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: No specific monitoring body is identified in this amendment. Monitoring would be conducted through standard criminal justice oversight mechanisms including law enforcement agencies and prosecutorial offices in Tennessee.

AI Lifecycle Stages

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

• Build and Use Model

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document does not focus on specific AI lifecycle stages but rather on the outputs and use of AI systems. It addresses AI-generated content (images) regardless of how they were created, implicitly covering the 'Build and Use Model' stage where generative AI creates content, and potentially the 'Deploy' stage where such systems are made available for use.

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 'artificial intelligence' and 'generative artificial intelligence' but does not mention AI models, AI systems, frontier AI, general purpose AI, task-specific AI, foundation models, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds. The focus is on defining AI for the purpose of criminal law related to image creation and modification.