Bill Text: NY A07501 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a state office of algorithmic innovation to set policies and standards to ensure algorithms are safe, effective, fair, and ethical, and that the state is conducive to promoting algorithmic innovation.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to science and technology [A07501 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07501-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7501

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 25, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Science and Technology

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to creating the office of
          algorithmic innovation

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

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new  article  38-A
     2  to read as follows:

     3                                ARTICLE 38-A
     4                      OFFICE OF ALGORITHMIC INNOVATION
     5  Section 860. Office of algorithmic innovation.
     6    §  860. Office of algorithmic innovation. 1. There is hereby created a
     7  state office of algorithmic innovation. The office shall be headed by  a
     8  director  who  shall be appointed by the governor. The office shall have
     9  as its primary purpose the creation of policies and standards to  ensure
    10  algorithms are safe, effective, fair, and ethical, and that the state is
    11  conducive to promoting algorithmic innovation. The office shall have the
    12  power to set standards for algorithms used in any technology, be able to
    13  audit  all algorithms, and set statewide policy on the use of algorithms
    14  and promotion of  innovation.  The  director  shall  appoint  staff  and
    15  perform  such  other  functions to ensure the efficient operation of the
    16  office within the amounts made available therefor by appropriation.
    17    2. For the purpose of this article, "algorithm" shall mean any set  of
    18  computer programming instructions used to complete an objective, includ-
    19  ing  for  the purpose of creating technology that performs its own deci-
    20  sion making otherwise known as artificial intelligence.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    22  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11400-02-3