Utah Senate Bill 131 Information Technology Act Amendments (2024)

• Authority: Utah
• Parent authority: State governments
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. state and local documents
• Most recent activity: Enacted
• Most recent activity date: 2024-07-01

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
• Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
• 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.

• Pollution of information ecosystem

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has good coverage of approximately 5-6 subdomains, with strong focus on malicious actors (4.1 disinformation/surveillance, 4.3 fraud/manipulation), misinformation (3.1 false information, 3.2 information pollution), and governance (6.5 governance failure through regulatory measures). Coverage is concentrated in misinformation, malicious use, and governance domains.

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, digital communications) and Public Administration excluding National Security (political campaigns, elections). It applies to political communications using AI-generated content.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding state statute enacted by the Utah Legislature with mandatory disclosure requirements, civil penalties for non-compliance, and aggravating sentencing factors for criminal offenses involving AI.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Utah Legislature
• Summary: The document is a state legislative bill enacted by the Utah Legislature, as indicated in the opening clause.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Developer, AI_Deployer
• Entities: candidate campaign committees; political action committees; political issues committees; political parties; creators of synthetic media; sponsors of synthetic media
• Summary: The law targets creators and sponsors of AI-generated synthetic media used in political communications, as well as any person who uses AI to commit or facilitate criminal offenses.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: courts; Board of Pardons and Parole; sentencing judges
• Summary: Courts have authority to impose civil penalties for violations of disclosure requirements, while sentencing judges and the Board of Pardons and Parole can consider AI use as an aggravating factor in criminal cases.

Monitor

• Summary: The document does not specify any monitoring body or oversight mechanism. Enforcement appears to be complaint-driven through civil actions and criminal proceedings.

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 primarily addresses the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, focusing on disclosure requirements for deployed synthetic media in political communications and ongoing monitoring through digital provenance. It does not substantially cover 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

• AI Systems
• Generative AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly defines and regulates artificial intelligence, generative artificial intelligence, synthetic audio media, and synthetic visual media. It does not mention frontier AI, general purpose AI, task-specific AI, foundation models, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds.