Establishes the Delaware AI Commission to recommend AI-related legislative and executive actions, develop guidelines, encourage AI use in agencies, and ensure AI safety and rights compliance. Requires an annual report and conducts a Generative AI inventory. Expires in 10 years.
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This is a binding state statute enacted by the Delaware General Assembly that creates a formal AI Commission with defined powers, membership requirements, and reporting obligations. The document uses mandatory language throughout and establishes legal requirements for commission composition, operations, and deliverables.
The document has minimal coverage of specific risk domains. It primarily establishes a governance structure (Commission) to examine AI risks broadly, with implicit references to rights violations (1.1), safety concerns (7.3), and governance structures (6.5). However, it does not explicitly describe the specific harms or risks from most subdomains - it creates a body to study and address them. Coverage scores are predominantly 1-2, with only governance failure receiving a score of 2 due to the Commission's mandate to develop oversight mechanisms.
This document governs AI use across all Delaware state government operations, which spans multiple sectors including Public Administration (primary focus), Educational Services, Health Care and Social Assistance, Transportation, and National Security. The Commission's mandate covers executive, legislative, and judicial agencies, making it a cross-sectoral governance framework for state government AI applications.
The document does not focus on specific AI lifecycle stages but rather establishes a governance body to examine AI use across all stages. It implicitly covers deployment and operation/monitoring through its mandate to inventory existing Generative AI usage and identify high-risk areas, and to encourage appropriate AI use in agencies.
The document explicitly defines and mentions both AI and Generative AI. 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 on broad AI systems and specifically Generative AI applications within state government.
Delaware General Assembly
The document is enacted by the Delaware General Assembly, which is the state legislative body that proposed and passed this bill into law.
Delaware AI Commission; Chief Information Officer of the Department of Technology and Information; Governor; General Assembly
The Commission is empowered to make recommendations and develop guidelines, with the Chief Information Officer providing oversight. The General Assembly and Governor receive annual reports and can take action based on Commission recommendations.
Delaware AI Commission; Governor; President Pro Tempore of the Senate; Speaker of the House of Representatives; Director and Librarian of the Division of Research
The Commission is required to submit annual reports to state leadership documenting its activities, goals, and findings. The Commission also conducts ongoing inventory and examination of AI usage in state agencies.
Delaware executive, legislative, and judicial agencies; Department of Technology and Information; Attorney General; Department of Labor; Department of Education; Department of Transportation; Office of Management and Budget; Supreme Court; Secretary of State; Department of Health and Social Services; Department of Safety and Homeland Security; State Election Commissioner; Government Efficiency and Accountability Review Board
The Commission's mandate explicitly targets state government agencies across all three branches (executive, legislative, judicial) to develop AI guidelines and conduct inventories of Generative AI usage.
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