New York S 8138 (Creates a temporary state commission to study and investigate how to regulate artificial intelligence, robotics and automation)

• Authority: New York
• Parent authority: State governments
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. state and local documents
• Most recent activity: Proposed
• Most recent activity date: 2024-05-08

Risk subdomain coverage

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

This document establishes a study commission and therefore mentions several risk domains as topics for investigation rather than directly addressing them through governance measures. The document has minimal to no direct coverage of AI risks, as it primarily outlines the scope and structure of a research commission. Risk domains mentioned as study topics include employment impacts (6.2), weaponry concerns (4.2), privacy/confidential information (2.1), liability issues (7.3), and governance frameworks (6.5).

Sector coverage

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

• Information
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)
• National Security

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This document does not directly govern any specific economic sectors. It establishes a study commission with a broad mandate to examine AI impacts across multiple sectors, with explicit mention of studying employment impacts (affecting all sectors), weaponry restrictions (National Security), and public sector applications (Public Administration). The commission will study rather than regulate these areas.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding state legislative act that creates a temporary commission with mandatory obligations. It uses mandatory legislative language ('is hereby created', 'shall consist', 'shall issue') and has legal force as enacted state law, though it establishes a study commission rather than directly regulating AI activities.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The document is a legislative act proposed and enacted by the New York State Legislature, as indicated by the enacting clause and the formal legislative structure.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The act primarily targets the commission members who are appointed and have mandatory obligations. The appointing officials (Governor, legislative leaders, university chancellors, Attorney General) are also targets as they have appointment obligations.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The document does not explicitly designate an enforcement body, but the appointing officials have authority over commission members who 'serve at the pleasure of the official making the appointment,' and the legislature maintains oversight through reporting requirements.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The executive and legislative leaders are designated as recipients of the commission's final report, establishing them as monitors of the commission's work and findings.

AI Lifecycle Stages

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

No lifecycle stages identified.

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document does not focus on specific AI lifecycle stages as it establishes a study commission rather than regulating AI development or deployment. The commission's mandate to study 'current law,' 'regulatory structures,' 'liability,' and 'public sector applications' suggests a broad examination across all lifecycle stages without concentrating on any particular stage.

Technical Scope

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

• AI Systems

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly mentions 'artificial intelligence, robotics and automation' throughout but does not define these terms or distinguish between different types of AI (frontier, general purpose, task-specific, etc.). No technical specifications, compute thresholds, or model architectures are mentioned as this is a study commission establishment act rather than technical AI regulation.