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(5-a) 1 Any political communication, whether made by phone call, email or other message-based communication, that utilizes an artificial intelligence system to engage in human-like conversation with another shall, by reasonable means, apprise the person of the fact that they are communicating with an artificial intelligence system.
This new subdivision adds a single operative obligation to the existing election law framework governing political communications. Any political communication delivered by phone call, email, or other message-based channel that employs an AI system to conduct human-like conversation must apprise the recipient that they are communicating with an AI system. The obligation is framed broadly — it applies regardless of who makes the communication (candidate, committee, PAC, or any other person) — and the disclosure standard is flexible: the person must be apprised "by reasonable means," without prescribing specific label language, placement, or timing.
The bill does not define artificial intelligence system, political communication, or human-like conversation, leaving those terms to their ordinary meaning and the existing election law context. The absence of definitions creates interpretive latitude — for example, whether a pre-recorded AI-generated robocall that does not adaptively respond constitutes engaging in "human-like conversation" is unclear. The obligation most naturally applies to interactive AI agents that converse in real time with voters.
This act shall take effect immediately.
Standard immediate-effect clause. The act takes effect upon enactment with no delayed operative date or staged implementation schedule.