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EPIC's AI Legislation Scorecard provides a rubric for evaluating AI bills across key metrics like data minimization, impact assessments, and enforcement mechanisms, serving as a practical governance tool for lawmakers and advocates navigating the growing wave of AI regulation.

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EPIC developed the AI Legislation Scorecard as a first-of-its-kind evaluation rubric for assessing the strength of AI bills at state and federal levels. It identifies key provisions effective AI legislation should contain, including data minimization, impact assessments, prohibitions on harmful AI uses, and enforcement mechanisms. The tool is aimed at lawmakers, journalists, advocates, and academics.

Key Points

  • •Hundreds of AI bills have been introduced in at least 40 U.S. states during the 2023-2024 legislative session, varying widely in approach.
  • •The scorecard evaluates AI bills on key metrics: data minimization, impact assessments, prohibitions on harmful uses, and enforcement mechanisms.
  • •Designed for use by lawmakers, journalists, advocates, and academics to assess legislative quality.
  • •EPIC hosted a launch webinar on June 25, 2024, featuring experts from Mozilla, GWU Law School, Encode Justice, and Vermont legislature.
  • •Represents a structured, standardized approach to comparing and improving AI governance legislation across jurisdictions.

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AI Legislation Scorecard

 
 EPIC set out to create a tool to evaluate the growing wave of AI bills. Our AI Legislation Scorecard is a first-of-its-kind rubric for lawmakers, journalists, and others to use when evaluating the strength of AI bills across key metrics.
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The United States is facing a growing wave of AI legislation at both the state and federal levels. Hundreds of bills seeking to regulate AI have been introduced in at least 40 states during the 2023-2024 legislative session. These bills varied widely in their approaches to regulating AI, with some trying to set out comprehensive frameworks while others created task forces or focused on regulating narrow AI use cases.

EPIC set out to create a tool to evaluate AI bills: our AI Legislation Scorecard. The scorecard provides a rubric for lawmakers, journalists, advocates, and academics to use to evaluate the strength of AI bills. The scorecard lays out key provisions and minimum practices that effective AI legislation should contain, including data minimization requirements, impact assessment and testing obligations, prohibitions on particularly harmful AI uses, and robust enforcement mechanisms.

 
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 AI Legislation Scorecard Launch Webinar

 On June 25, 2024, EPIC hosted a webinar about EPIC’s AI Legislation Scorecard and the nuances of responsible AI oversight. EPIC Fellow Kara Williams moderated a panel of experts including Vermont State Representative Monique Priestley; Nik Marda, Mozilla’s Technical Lead for AI Governance; Alicia Solow-Niederman, Associate Professor at the George Washington University Law School; and Adam Billen, Director of Policy at Encode Justice.

 A recording of the launch webinar is available below.
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