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A08833 Summary:

BILL NOA08833 

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Add Art 45-A §§1510 - 1512, Gen Bus L

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Establishes understanding artificial intelligence responsibility act requiring developers of covered models to be strictly liable for certain injuries.

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BILL NOA08833 

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06/09/2025referred to science and technology

01/07/2026referred to science and technology

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 8833

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 June 9, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Science and Technology

 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to establishing
 the understanding artificial intelligence act

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new article
 2 45-A to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 45-A
 4 UNDERSTANDING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
 5 ACT
 6 Section 1510. Short title.
 7 1511. Definitions.
 8 1512. Artificial intelligence; liability for injuries.
 9 § 1510. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the
 10 "understanding artificial intelligence act".
 11 § 1511. Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following terms
 12 shall have the following meanings:
 13 1. "Artificial intelligence" means an engineered or machine-based
 14 system that varies in its level of autonomy and that can, for explicit
 15 or implicit objectives, infer from the input it receives how to generate
 16 outputs that can influence physical or virtual environments.
 17 2. "Covered model" means an artificial intelligence model trained
 18 using a quantity of computing power greater than 10�26 integer or float-
 19 ing-point operations, the cost of which exceeds one hundred million
 20 dollars when calculated using the average market prices of cloud compute
 21 at the start of training as reasonably assessed by the developer.
 22 3. "Developer" means a person that performs the initial training of a
 23 covered model by training a model using a sufficient quantity of comput-
 24 ing power and cost.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02147-04-5

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 1 4. "Fine-tuning" means adjusting the model weights of a trained
 2 covered model by exposing it to additional data.
 3 § 1512. Artificial intelligence; liability for injuries. 1. Except
 4 with respect to any causes of action for defamation, developers of
 5 covered models shall be strictly liable, regardless of the degree of
 6 care they exercised, for all injuries to a non-user of the covered model
 7 that satisfy the actual harm element of an ordinary negligence claim if:
 8 (a) those injuries are factually and proximately caused by a covered
 9 model that engages in conduct that, if undertaken by an adult human of
 10 sound mind, would satisfy the elements of negligence or any intentional
 11 tort or crime; and
 12 (b) that conduct was neither intended nor could have been reasonably
 13 anticipated by: (i) the user of the model; or (ii) any intermediary that
 14 fine-tuned, scaffolded, or otherwise modified the model.
 15 2. (a) For the purposes of this section, for any torts for which the
 16 mental state of the alleged tortfeasor is relevant to elements of the
 17 tort, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the artificial intel-
 18 ligence system satisfies the relevant mental state if the finder of fact
 19 determines by a preponderance of the evidence that, if a natural person
 20 under similar circumstances to the artificial intelligence system took
 21 actions similar to those taken by the artificial intelligence system,
 22 that natural person would have acted with the relevant mental state.
 23 (b) Unless the court determines that the presumption established in
 24 paragraph (a) of this subdivision is not applicable, if the party
 25 against whom the presumption is invoked presents evidence t