Washington Senate Bill 5838 (2024)

• Authority: Washington
• Parent authority: State governments
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. state and local documents
• Most recent activity: Enacted
• Most recent activity date: 2024-03-18

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
• Governance failure

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

• Unequal performance across groups
• Compromise of privacy
• AI system security vulnerabilities
• False or misleading information
• Overreliance and unsafe use
• Loss of human agency and autonomy
• Increased inequality and decline in employment
• Economic and cultural devaluation of human effort
• AI possessing dangerous capabilities
• Lack of capability or robustness
• Lack of transparency or interpretability

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has minimal to good coverage of approximately 10-12 subdomains. It focuses primarily on governance structures (6.5), discrimination and bias (1.1, 1.3), privacy concerns (2.1), misinformation risks (3.1), workforce impacts (6.2, 6.3), transparency issues (7.4), and civil rights protections. The document is primarily a task force establishment bill that mandates examination of these risks rather than directly regulating them.

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.

• Information
• Professional & Technical Services
• Scientific Research & Development Services
• Educational Services
• Health Care & Social Assistance
• Accommodation, Food & Other Services
• National Security

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This document does not directly govern specific economic sectors but rather establishes a task force to examine AI use across multiple sectors. The task force structure includes subcommittees focused on education, healthcare, labor, public safety, and government sectors, and includes representatives from retail, hospitality, and technology industries. The scope is cross-sectoral, examining both public and private sector AI use.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding legislative act enacted by the Washington State Legislature that establishes mandatory requirements for creating a task force, with specific composition requirements, duties, and reporting deadlines. It uses mandatory language throughout and has the force of state law.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Washington State Legislature
• Summary: The document is enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington, which is the proposing authority for this bill establishing the AI task force.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Task force members including state officials, technology industry representatives, community advocates, and subject matter experts
• Summary: The legislation establishes a task force with specific membership requirements from various sectors. The task force itself is the primary target of this legislation's requirements, though the task force will examine AI use by both private and public sector entities.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Office of the Attorney General of Washington
• Summary: The Attorney General's office is explicitly designated to administer the task force, provide staff support, and ensure compliance with reporting and transparency requirements.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Office of the Attorney General of Washington; Governor of Washington; Washington State Legislature
• Summary: The Attorney General's office monitors task force activities through administration and public posting of meeting summaries. The Governor and Legislature receive reports and monitor progress through mandatory reporting deadlines.

AI Lifecycle Stages

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

• Plan and Design
• Collect and Process Data
• Build and Use Model
• Verify and Validate
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document addresses multiple AI lifecycle stages through its mandate for the task force to examine AI development, deployment, and use. It covers planning and design through requirements for guiding principles and ethical AI definitions, deployment through examination of appropriate uses and limitations, and operation and monitoring through recommendations for oversight, transparency, and accountability mechanisms.

Technical Scope

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

• AI Models
• AI Systems
• Generative AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly defines and addresses AI systems, artificial intelligence, generative AI, machine learning, and training data. It does not specifically mention frontier AI, general purpose AI, task-specific AI, foundation models, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds.