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What is Connecticut’s new AI law?

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For the second year in a row, Connecticut lawmakers have decided not to regulate AI for businesses, but have passed legislation that criminalizes deep fake revenge porn and provides education funding for artificial intelligence.

A bill that required companies to publicly disclose their AI use was passed by the Senate, but was not taken up by the House after Gov. Ned Lamont threatened to refuse the action. He expressed concern that it would damage Connecticut’s technology sector.

Here’s what you need to know about the AI bills for this session, their status, and how they compare to other state laws:

What kind of AI bills have become law this year?

Most of the AI laws signed to this session approved $500,000 at the Connecticut Online AI Academy, $25,000 for AI training at Boys and Girls Club in Milford, $75,000 for AI training pilots at the three boys and girls clubs, and $500,000 for the state and $75,000 for the state.

Also, as of October 1, 2025, it has made “syntheticly created” revenge porn a crime. The law does not directly mention images created by AI, but lawmakers aim to address the issue of generating-reven porn deepfakes. The law can also be applied to other image creation techniques. Criminalize the sharing of such images without the consent of the person depicted.

Additionally, the new privacy laws in Senate Bill 1295 require a collector of sensitive data to notify consumers when personal data is being used to train large-scale language models.

It also gives consumers the right to opt out of automated systems, including AI, and prevents them from using their personal data to make important decisions regarding housing, insurance, healthcare, education, criminal justice and employment. Consumers are given the right to doubt decisions made in an automated decision-making system, and if it is related to housing, they will correct inaccurate information before the decision is reevaluated.

What didn’t pass?

Senate Bill 2 requires businesses to publicly disclose AI use to consumers and passed the Senate, but by the end of the session it would not vote in the House. The last minute revisions created an annual impact rating and supplemented initial requirements to ease algorithm identification to make the bill taste better for the governor.

This is the second year such AI business regulations have accomplished it through the Senate, and like last year, House Speaker Matt Ritter, D-Hartford refused to call it on the House floor after Lamont threatened to refuse.

Another law in Senate Bill 1484 that would prevent algorithmic discrimination against employees and require disclosure of the role of AI in employee evaluations was passed by the Judicial Committee, but the legislative process did not go any further.

Why did Lamont threaten to reject SB 2?

This is the third year Sen. James Maroney of D-Milford wrote a bill on AI. The first that required the Connecticut government to disclose AI use sailed through the Senate and House of Representatives before it was signed into law by Lamont in 2023.

Maloney gained a major senator leader, but Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Rooney, Sen. D-New Haven, and Senator majority leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) were on the SB 2, but he couldn’t convince Lamont.

The governor has discouraged lawmakers from passing AI regulations from Connecticut, which they believe could risk scaring businesses.

“The governor is concerned that this is a fast-moving space and that we need to make sure that we do this right and not interfere with innovation,” Lamont’s office said of a similar bill.

This year, Lamont Chief Innovation Officer Dan O’Keefe said that SB 2 will send a message saying, “We don’t understand this yet, so we can’t innovate here. We can’t take risks here.”

O’Keefe also expressed concern that it would be “too early” to pass such laws in Connecticut, and that states with 1% of the US population should not be among the first few to pass AI regulations.

John Kills, R-Enfield, Paul Cicarella, R-North Haven, Melissa Osborne and Melissa Osborne of D-Simsbury, who spoke against the bill when he voted for the Judiciary Committee, reiterated O’Keefe’s concerns. Kissel has also cultivated the Trump administration’s support for AI technology as a reason not to pass regulatory bills now.

What are the AI laws in other states?

Over the past few years, several states have passed AI laws. Colorado became the first state to require businesses to disclose artificial intelligence systems and codify AI discrimination as illegal in 2024, similar to Connecticut’s SB 2 goals.

Utah passed the law in 2024, requiring active disclosure of AI use in regulated occupations. California and Texas also passed private sector regulatory laws.

Connecticut will join New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and others to criminalize deep fake revenge porn. New Hampshire law goes a step further to ban all sorts of deep events that cause reputational harm, including deep fakes for political candidates.

The state has introduced many aspects of AI law, but it has not been able to pass at various points in the system. The law, which has a similar goal to Connecticut SB 2, was passed in Virginia but was rejected by Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

What about federal AI laws?

Trump signed the Take It Down Act in May.

The federal budget settlement bill, also known as the “big beautiful bill,” passed earlier this month, originally included a Trump-backed ban that enforces and enacts the AI law for 10 years. Hours before the bill was passed, the senator voted 99-1 to remove prohibited languages from the bill.

It remains to be created by the state in the first place to create your own courses.

How did CT Mirror use this session?

CT Mirror used AI to analyze invoice text, create transcriptions of hearings and sessions when transcripts are not readily available, and search for related citations within invoices and transcript text. Using AI, I was able to search for explicit languages in a 9-hour video and publish my work in the afternoon. CT Mirror checked the quote against the original document and confirmed the billing using secondary sources.

CT mirror reporter Keith M. Faneuf contributed to this story.

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