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H.341 1
Introduced by Representatives Priestley of Bradford, Arsenault of Williston, 2
Berbeco of Winooski, Cole of Hartford, Logan of Burlington, 3
Masland of Thetford, McGill of Bridport, Sibilia of Dover, and 4
White of Bethel 5
Referred to Committee on 6
Date: 7
Subject: Commerce and trade; consumer protection; artificial intelligence 8
systems 9
Statement of purpose of bill as introduced: This bill proposes to create safety 10
standards for developers and deployers of inherently dangerous artificial 11
intelligence systems. 12
An act relating to creating oversight and safety standards for developers and 13
deployers of inherently dangerous artificial intelligence systems 14
It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont: 15
Sec. 1. 9 V.S.A. chapter 118 is added to read: 16
CHAPTER 118. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 17
Subchapter 1. Artificial Intelligence Oversight and Safety Standards 18
§ 4193a. LEGISLATIVE INTENT 19

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(a) Artificial intelligence systems are products that shift decision-making 1
power and responsibility away from persons to software-based systems, often 2
without direct human oversight. An artificial intelligence system can be 3
inherently dangerous due to its capabilities, potential for misuse or 4
exploitation, and ability to unilaterally evolve. 5
(b) Developers of sophisticated artificial intelligence systems have an 6
obligation to make the systems safe when used in reasonably foreseeable ways. 7
Deployers of these products also have an obligation to ensure that the products 8
are safe and used in a way that does not materially affect an individual’s rights. 9
(c) In the artificial intelligence ecosystem, there will typically be multiple 10
suppliers upstream of a consumer. The original developer of an artificial 11
intelligence system should be responsible for harms attributable to the artificial 12
intelligence system, even if the developer is not the deployer of the system to a 13
consumer. Small businesses using off-the-shelf artificial intelligence products 14
according to the product’s terms of use are not intended to be covered by this 15
subchapter. 16
§ 4193b. DEFINITIONS 17
As used in this subchapter: 18
(1) “Artificial intelligence agent” is an artificial intelligence system that 19
is capable of autonomously performing tasks on behalf of a user or another 20
artificial intelligence system. 21

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(2) “Artificial intelligence system” means a machine-based system that 1
can, for a given set of objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or 2
decisions influencing real or virtual environments. Artificial intelligence 3
systems use machine- and human-based inputs to perceive real and virtual 4
environments, abstract such perceptions into models through analysis in an 5
automated manner, and use model inference to formulate options for 6
information or action. 7
(3) “Biometric data” means data that depict or describe physical, 8
biological, or behavioral traits, characteristics, or measurements of or relating 9
to an identified or identifiable person’s body. Biometric information includes 10
depictions, images, descriptions, or recordings of an individual’s facial 11
features, iris or retina, finger or handprints, voice, genetics, or characteristic 12
movements or gestures. Biometric information also includes data derived from 13
the depictions, images, descriptions, or recordings, to the extent that it would 14
be reasonably possible to identify the person from whose information the data 15
had been derived. 16
(4) “Consequential decision” means a decision that either has a legal or 17
similarly significant effect on an individual’s access to the criminal justice 18
system, housing, employment, credit, education, health care, or insurance. 19
(5) “Consumer” means any individual who is a resident of this State. 20

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(6) “Deployer” means a person, including a developer, who uses or 1
operates an artificial intelligence system for internal use or for use by third 2
parties in the State. 3
(7) “Developer” means a person who designs, codes, produces, owns, or 4
substantially modifies an artificial intelligence system for internal use or for 5
use by a third party in the State. 6
(8) “Do not train data” means any data whose owner or publisher has 7
affirmatively asserted that the data should not be used for training an artificial 8
intelligence system. 9
(9) “Dual-use foundational model” means an artificial intelligence 10
system that: 11
(A) is trained on broad data; 12
(B) generally uses self-supervision; 13
(C) contains at least 10 billion parameters; 14
(D) is applicable across a wide range of contexts; and 15
(E) exhibits, or could be easily modified to exhibit, high levels of 16
performance at tasks that pose