Adopt the Transparency in Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Act, create a fund, and change provisions relating to records which may be withheld from the public

Brief

What this bill does

If it passes, what actually changes?

This is a new disclosure law aimed at the largest artificial intelligence companies. It also amends Nebraska's public records statute.

• Sections 1 to 9 create the Transparency in Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Act.
• Covers large frontier developers: $500 million or more annual revenue counting affiliates.
• Covers large chatbot providers: $25 million revenue and a chatbot with 1,000,000 monthly users.
• Section 4 requires publishing a public safety and child protection plan on the company website.
• Section 5 requires reporting critical safety incidents to the Attorney General within fifteen days.
• Amends section 84-712.05 on records that may be withheld from the public.

What it says it is for

Does it do what it claims?

The title matches the operative text that is visible, but several promised pieces fall past where this text cuts off.

• Section 1 adopts the Act by the exact name the title uses.
• The title promises a fund; no fund-creating section appears in the text provided.
• Section 84-712.05 is named for amendment, but the changed records language is not shown.
• 'Transparency' fits: duties are publishing and reporting, not licensing or pre-approval.
• The title says consumer protection, but catastrophic-risk provisions reach weapons and cyberattacks.
• Operative date, severability, and repeal of the original section are promised but not visible.

Where Scripture bears on it

What does the Bible say about this?

This is a bill about compelled disclosure, and two of the candidate verses touch it from different sides. Colossians 4:4 — 'That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak' — is the whole theory of Section 4: the remedy offered is not restraint but manifestation, publishing the plan and the assessments where anyone can read them. Romans 7:21 — 'I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me' — sits under Section 2, which declares in one breath that artificial intelligence can vastly improve the lives of all Nebraskans and that industry experts warn it could pose grave and catastrophic risks; the good and the harm arrive in the same object, which is precisely why the Legislature cannot simply forbid the one and keep the other. What the verses do not settle is everything measurable: they say nothing about whether 10^26 operations or five hundred million dollars in revenue is the right place to draw the line, whether a published summary actually reduces the risk of the incident it describes, whether fifteen days is prompt or slow, or whether the redaction allowance in Section 4(6) swallows the disclosure it qualifies. Scripture commends making a thing manifest; it does not tell a legislature how much may be blacked out first.

The case each way

What is the strongest argument for, and against?

The disagreement is whether mandated disclosure is a cheap safeguard or a burden a single state cannot administer.

• For: Large firms already write safety plans; publishing them lets Nebraskans check the work.
• For: Fifteen-day incident reports give the Attorney General early warning about harms to minors.
• For: Revenue and compute thresholds exempt startups, academic researchers, and nearly every Nebraska business.
• Against: Nebraska cannot independently verify a 10^26-operation training run or a company's self-assessment.
• Against: Broad redaction rights for trade secrets and security could hollow out published plans.
• Against: Terms like 'severe emotional distress' and 'materially contribute' invite costly litigation over meaning.

What is unsettled

What should I be careful about?

This reading covers only the text provided, which stops partway through Section 5.

• The fund's name, revenue source, and permitted spending are absent from this text.
• No penalty, fine, or enforcement amount appears anywhere in the excerpt.
• Sections 6 through 9, including employee reports and rulemaking, are not shown.
• Rules under section 6 may alter the compute and revenue thresholds; who writes them is unstated.
• The operative date is promised in the title but never stated here.
• Cost to the Attorney General of building reporting systems is not addressed.

Text (1)

• Introduced (application/pdf)

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All Actions (8)

Votes (0)

There have been no roll call votes on this bill.

Sponsors (1)

• Sen. Tanya Storer [District 43] — primary sponsor

Amendments (0)

There are no amendments to this bill.

Fiscal Notes & Statements (3)

• Committee Statement — Committee Statement
• Fiscal Note — Fiscal Note
• Statement of Intent — Statement of Intent

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Committees (1)

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