Dueling Approaches Shape Connecticut's AI Policy
Key highlights this week:
We’re tracking 984 bills in all 50 states related to AI during the 2025 legislative session.
Montana becomes to first state to enact a “Right to Compute Act.”
North Dakota enacted a political deepfake law.
Lawmakers in Arkansas and Tennessee sent their governors sexual deepfake legislation.
Connecticut lawmakers are navigating a delicate balance between encouraging artificial intelligence innovation and imposing meaningful regulatory guardrails, a tension reflected in two major bills recently advanced by the General Law Committee. The competing visions underscore a broader policy divide on whether the state should fill the vacuum left by Congress and the White House and lead on AI regulation, or develop more of a consensus among states to avoid being hostile to the industry.
The General Law Committee approved passage of SB 2, the second attempt at a comprehensive regulatory bill sponsored by Sen. James Maroney (D). The General Law Committee in the Connecticut Legislature is a joint standing committee with jurisdiction over consumer protection matters. We wrote about the bill back in February when the committee first released its draft. The proposal retains many of the regulatory provisions Sen. Maroney introduced last year, imposing certain obligations on developers and deployers of high-risk AI systems, as well as "integrators," those that integrate a high-risk AI system into a product or service.
