Alaska Senate Bill No. 177

• Authority: Alaska
• Parent authority: State governments
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. state and local documents
• Most recent activity: Defunct
• Most recent activity date: 2025-03-29

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
• Compromise of privacy
• AI system security vulnerabilities
• Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
• 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.

• Unequal performance across groups
• Overreliance and unsafe use
• 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 8-10 subdomains, with strong focus on privacy compromise (2.1), security vulnerabilities (2.2), unfair discrimination (1.1), disinformation and surveillance (4.1), fraud and manipulation (4.3), loss of agency (5.2), governance failure (6.5), and lack of transparency (7.4). Coverage is concentrated in privacy, security, discrimination prevention, and governance domains.

Sector coverage

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

• Educational Services
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This document governs AI use exclusively within Alaska state government operations across all public administration functions. The primary sector governed is Public Administration excluding National Security, with comprehensive requirements for all state agencies, departments, and public corporations.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding state legislative act with mandatory requirements, enforcement mechanisms including civil liability and damages, and regulatory authority delegated to the Department of Administration.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: This is a state legislative bill proposed by the Alaska Senate, as indicated by the title 'Alaska Senate Bill No. 177' and the statutory structure amending Alaska Statutes.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, AI_Deployer
• Summary: The bill explicitly targets state agencies that use AI systems for consequential decisions, as defined in the definitions section and throughout the requirements.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The Department of Administration is designated to conduct inventories, publish assessments, and adopt regulations. The superior court has jurisdiction over civil actions for violations.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The Department of Administration conducts biannual inventories and publishes impact assessments. State agency heads conduct impact assessments of their AI systems at least once every two years.

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
• Verify and Validate
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document covers multiple AI lifecycle stages with primary focus on Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages. It addresses procurement and implementation (Plan and Design), requires impact assessments before implementation (Verify and Validate), mandates notification and consent processes (Deploy), and establishes ongoing biannual assessments and monitoring (Operate and Monitor).

Technical Scope

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

• AI Systems

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly defines and covers AI systems used for consequential decisions by state agencies. It does not mention AI models separately, nor does it reference frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, generative AI, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds. The focus is on deployed AI systems regardless of their technical architecture.