Guides New Hampshire State Employees on ethical AI use, emphasizing human oversight, transparency, and data protection. Requires agency heads to ensure compliance and report AI use. Employs AI for public services under strict ethical guidelines and accountability measures. Maps to NIST standards.
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This is a binding state government policy with mandatory requirements for all New Hampshire State Employees and agencies, featuring enforcement through agency head accountability and mandatory reporting requirements.
The document has good coverage of approximately 8-10 subdomains, with strong focus on privacy and data protection (2.1), AI system security (2.2), unfair discrimination (1.1), lack of transparency (7.4), lack of robustness (7.3), and governance failure (6.5). Coverage is concentrated in privacy/security, fairness, and AI system safety domains.
This policy governs AI use across multiple public sector domains including public administration, healthcare, law enforcement, environmental services, and transportation infrastructure. The document applies to all Executive Branch government operations in New Hampshire, with specific use cases spanning health care, environmental monitoring, law enforcement, and transportation systems.
The document covers multiple AI lifecycle stages with primary focus on deployment and operational monitoring. It addresses planning and design through ethical principles, verification through ethical reviews, deployment through specific use case requirements, and operation through continuous monitoring and improvement mandates.
The document broadly refers to 'AI technologies' and 'AI systems' without defining specific technical categories. It mentions generative AI explicitly and references automated decision systems. No compute thresholds, foundation models, or open-weight models are mentioned. The focus is on AI applications rather than specific model architectures.
State of New Hampshire, Department of Information Technology (DoIT)
The policy is issued as part of the Statewide Information Security Manual (SISM) applicable to all Executive Branch entities, with DoIT's Business Relationship Management Division (BRMD) serving as the central coordinating body.
Agency Heads, DoIT's Business Relationship Management Division (BRMD), Ethical Review Committees (composed of program owner, Attorney General's Office representative, and Agency Head)
Agency heads are explicitly assigned accountability for policy adherence, BRMD maintains inventory oversight, and ethical review committees assess high-risk AI systems.
DoIT's Business Relationship Management Division (BRMD), Agency Heads, Ethical Review Committees
BRMD maintains an inventory of AI technologies, agencies must continuously monitor and evaluate AI systems, and ethical review committees assess high-risk systems.
All New Hampshire State Employees and affiliates, all Departments, Agencies, Commissions, Boards, Bodies, or other instrumentalities of the Executive Branch of New Hampshire State Government
The policy explicitly applies to all state employees and affiliates who use AI technologies to deliver government services, as well as all Executive Branch entities.
12 subdomains (7 Good, 5 Minimal)