Connecticut General Statutes 4a-2e – State agency use of artificial intelligence. Annual inventory and assessment
(a) For the purposes of this section:
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 4a-2e
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
(1) “Artificial intelligence” means (A) an artificial system that (i) performs tasks under varying and unpredictable circumstances without significant human oversight or can learn from experience and improve such performance when exposed to data sets, (ii) is developed in any context, including, but not limited to, software or physical hardware, and solves tasks requiring human-like perception, cognition, planning, learning, communication or physical action, or (iii) is designed to (I) think or act like a human, including, but not limited to, a cognitive architecture or neural network, or (II) act rationally, including, but not limited to, an intelligent software agent or embodied robot that achieves goals using perception, planning, reasoning, learning, communication, decision-making or action, or (B) a set of techniques, including, but not limited to, machine learning, that is designed to approximate a cognitive task; and
(2) “State agency” has the same meaning as provided in section 4d-1.
(b) (1) Not later than December 31, 2023, and annually thereafter, the Department of Administrative Services shall conduct an inventory of all systems that employ artificial intelligence and are in use by any state agency. Each such inventory shall include at least the following information for each such system:
(A) The name of such system and the vendor, if any, that provided such system;
(B) A description of the general capabilities and uses of such system;
(C) Whether such system was used to independently make, inform or materially support a conclusion, decision or judgment; and
(D) Whether such system underwent an impact assessment prior to implementation.
(2) The Department of Administrative Services shall make each inventory conducted pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection publicly available on the state’s open data portal.
(c) Beginning on February 1, 2024, the Department of Administrative Services shall perform ongoing assessments of systems that employ artificial intelligence and are in use by state agencies to ensure that no such system shall result in any unlawful discrimination or disparate impact described in subparagraph (B) of subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 4-68jj. The department shall perform such assessment in accordance with the policies and procedures established by the Office of Policy and Management pursuant to subsection (b) of section 4-68jj.