WHAT THIS BILL REGULATES · 2 REQUIREMENT TYPES
How Is This Bill Enforced
Verbatim statutory text on the left; plain-language analysis and a per-section checklist on the right. Numbered markers cross-link to the matching checklist row.
(a) As used in this section, "artificial intelligenceartificial intelligence"artificial intelligence" means: (1) An artificial system that performs tasks under varying and unpredictable circumstances without significant human oversight or that can learn from experience and improve such performance when exposed to data sets; is developed in any context, including, but not limited to, software or physical hardware; that solves tasks requiring human-like perception, cognition, planning, learning, communication, or physical action; or that is designed to: (A) Think or act like a human, including, but not limited to, a cognitive architecture or neural network; or (B) Act rationally, including, but not limited to, an intelligent software agent or embodied robot that may achieve goals using perception, planning, reasoning, learning, communication, decisionmaking, or action; and (2) A set of techniques, including, but not limited to, machine learning, that is designed to approximate a cognitive task.Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-3-1xx(a)" means: (1) An artificial system that performs tasks under varying and unpredictable circumstances without significant human oversight or that can learn from experience and improve such performance when exposed to data sets; is developed in any context, including, but not limited to, software or physical hardware; that solves tasks requiring human-like perception, cognition, planning, learning, communication, or physical action; or that is designed to: (A) Think or act like a human, including, but not limited to, a cognitive architecture or neural network; or (B) Act rationally, including, but not limited to, an intelligent software agent or embodied robot that may achieve goals using perception, planning, reasoning, learning, communication, decisionmaking, or action; and (2) A set of techniques, including, but not limited to, machine learning, that is designed to approximate a cognitive task.
(b)(1)–(3) 1 Each department of the executive branch shall develop a plan to prevent the malicious and unlawful use of artificial intelligenceartificial intelligence"artificial intelligence" means: (1) An artificial system that performs tasks under varying and unpredictable circumstances without significant human oversight or that can learn from experience and improve such performance when exposed to data sets; is developed in any context, including, but not limited to, software or physical hardware; that solves tasks requiring human-like perception, cognition, planning, learning, communication, or physical action; or that is designed to: (A) Think or act like a human, including, but not limited to, a cognitive architecture or neural network; or (B) Act rationally, including, but not limited to, an intelligent software agent or embodied robot that may achieve goals using perception, planning, reasoning, learning, communication, decisionmaking, or action; and (2) A set of techniques, including, but not limited to, machine learning, that is designed to approximate a cognitive task.Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-3-1xx(a) with respect to the operation of the department and its agencies and divisions, including such malicious and unlawful use against a person or entity regulated by the department or an agency or division of the department. (2) In developing the plan, a department shall develop a timeline to ensure the timely completion of the plan and the compilation and submission of a report in accordance with subsection (c). (3) For the purposes of developing the plan, the department may collaborate with other departments, including an agency or division of another department, and law enforcement agencies.
(c) 2 No later than January 1, 2025, each department shall report its plan, findings, and recommendations to each member of the general assembly.
This new section added to Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 1 directs every department of the Tennessee executive branch to develop a plan to prevent malicious and unlawful uses of artificial intelligence within each department's operations, including such uses targeting persons or entities regulated by the department. Departments must develop completion timelines and may collaborate with other departments and law enforcement agencies. Each department must report its plan, findings, and recommendations to the general assembly no later than January 1, 2025.
The provision is exclusively a government-internal planning mandate — it imposes no obligations on private-sector AI developers, deployers, or users, and creates no enforcement mechanism or penalties.
This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
Standard immediate-effect provision. The act takes effect upon becoming law, with a public-welfare urgency finding bypassing the normal delay.