Online Civil Rights Act

Summary

The Lawyers’ Committee’s model artificial intelligence bill was crafted to address the discriminatory outcomes, bias, and harm arising from algorithmic systems, which form the basis of artificial intelligence products and large language models. Currently, there is no comprehensive regulation of artificial intelligence, algorithmic systems, or federal privacy law governing the personal data these systems utilize.

This model legislation seeks to change that status quo, providing significant civil rights and privacy protections and encouraging the safe and effective design and deployment of AI. It seeks to both mitigate and prevent current, ongoing harms while also providing a broad, tech-neutral regulatory and governance regime to sufficiently address generative AI and further technological development in this space.

It was created by surveying and adopting concepts from major pieces of existing proposals on AI regulations (such as the Algorithmic Accountability Act, the Algorithmic Justice and Online Platform Transparency Act, California’s Assembly Bill 331, DC’s Stop Discrimination by Algorithms Act, and more) and modifying H.R. 8152, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act, to fit the specific contexts of algorithmic systems.