Arkansas HB 1876 (Ownership of Model Training and Content Generated by a Generative Artificial Intelligence Tool 2025)

• Authority: Arkansas
• Parent authority: State governments
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. state and local documents
• Most recent activity: Enacted
• Most recent activity date: 2025-04-15

Risk subdomain coverage

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

• Economic and cultural devaluation of human effort

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

This document has minimal risk domain coverage, focusing primarily on intellectual property and ownership rights related to AI-generated content and model training. It does not substantively address AI safety risks, harms, or governance failures. The document is a property rights statute rather than a risk mitigation framework.

Sector coverage

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

• Agriculture, Mining, Construction & Manufacturing
• Trade, Transportation & Utilities
• Information
• Finance & Insurance
• Real Estate, Rental & Leasing
• Professional & Technical Services
• Scientific Research & Development Services
• Management, Administrative & Support Services
• Educational Services
• Health Care & Social Assistance
• Arts, Entertainment & Recreation
• Accommodation, Food & Other Services
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)
• National Security

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This statute applies broadly across all economic sectors where generative AI tools are used, as it establishes general property rights for AI-generated content and model training. It does not target specific industries but rather creates universal ownership rules applicable to any person or entity using generative AI in Arkansas.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding state statute enacted by the Arkansas General Assembly that establishes legal ownership rights for AI-generated content and model training, using mandatory language throughout.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Arkansas General Assembly
• Summary: The document is a state statute enacted by the Arkansas General Assembly, as indicated by the enactment clause at the beginning of the document.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_User, AI_Developer, AI_Deployer
• Summary: The statute applies to any person or entity that uses generative AI tools to generate content or conduct model training, as well as employers who direct employees to use such tools. This includes individual users, developers training models, and organizations deploying AI systems.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Arkansas courts (implied)
• Summary: While no specific enforcement body is named, as a state property rights statute, enforcement would occur through the Arkansas court system when ownership disputes arise. This is the standard enforcement mechanism for property law.

Monitor

• Summary: The document does not establish any monitoring body or oversight mechanism. As a property rights statute, it does not require ongoing monitoring or compliance reporting.

AI Lifecycle Stages

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

• Collect and Process Data
• Build and Use Model
• Deploy

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily addresses the Build and Use Model stage by establishing ownership rights for model training. It also covers the Deploy stage through provisions on content generation and work-for-hire arrangements. The statute does not substantively address planning, data collection processes, verification, or operational monitoring.

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 mentions generative artificial intelligence tools and models multiple times. It does not reference frontier AI, general purpose AI, task-specific AI, foundation models, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds. The focus is narrowly on generative AI systems.