Establishes a permanent commission to monitor the use of artificial intelligence in Rhode Island state government and recommend changes to the state’s use of automated decision-making (ADM) systems. Requires the commission to submit an annual, public report detailing their findings.
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This is a binding legislative act from the Rhode Island General Laws that establishes a permanent commission with mandatory requirements, including annual reporting obligations and specific composition requirements with defined timelines.
The document has minimal to good coverage of approximately 8-10 subdomains, with strongest focus on governance failure (6.5), lack of transparency (7.4), unfair discrimination (1.1), and unequal performance (1.3). Coverage is concentrated in governance structures, transparency/accountability, and fairness domains, with implicit coverage of privacy and system robustness concerns.
This document governs AI use across all sectors of Rhode Island state government operations, with explicit coverage of Public Administration (excluding National Security). The commission's mandate extends to examining automated decision systems affecting legal rights, social services, education, health care, and judicial processes, indicating multi-sector governance within the public sector.
The document comprehensively covers all AI lifecycle stages from procurement and design through deployment and ongoing monitoring. It emphasizes validation, testing, evaluation, and continuous monitoring of automated decision systems used by state government, with particular focus on transparency, accountability, and impact assessment throughout the entire lifecycle.
The document explicitly defines and covers both 'artificial intelligence' and 'automated decision systems' as core concepts. It does not mention frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, generative AI, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds. The focus is on automated decision-making systems broadly defined.
Rhode Island General Assembly (state legislature)
This is an act of the Rhode Island General Laws, indicating it was proposed and enacted by the state legislature. The document is titled 'An act relating to state affairs and government' and amends Title 42 of the General Laws.
Commission to Monitor the Use of Artificial Intelligence in State Government, established within the Department of Administration
The commission is established as the primary oversight body with monitoring and investigative authority over state government AI use, though it operates through recommendations rather than direct enforcement powers.
Commission to Monitor the Use of Artificial Intelligence in State Government; Governor; Rhode Island House of Representatives; Rhode Island Senate
The commission serves as the primary monitoring body with extensive investigative and reporting responsibilities. The governor and legislature receive annual reports and serve as oversight recipients.
Rhode Island state government agencies, departments, boards, commissions, bureaus, divisions, authorities, and political subdivisions
The act targets all state government entities that use automated decision systems. The definition of 'Office,' 'Rhode Island,' or 'state' explicitly encompasses all government entities.
8 subdomains (3 Good, 5 Minimal)