Plain English Breakdown
The bill defines 'data enrichment services' broadly but does not list every specific AI product covered; it depends on whether data enrichment is needed for production.
State Contracts and AI Labor Standards Report
This law creates a working group to study labor practices in artificial intelligence, requires new rules for state contracts involving AI data work, and updates the definition of sweatshop labor.
What This Bill Does
- Creates a nine-member Foundation Model Labor and Procurement Working Group to assess labor practices behind modern foundation models and recommend how the state should include labor standards in buying decisions.
- Requires the working group to submit a report with findings and recommendations to the Legislature by December 31, 2027.
- Requires contractors for AI products needing data enrichment services to certify that their work was not produced using sweatshop or forced labor.
- Updates the contractor responsibility program to include a 'Sweatfree AI Code of Conduct' by July 1, 2027, which bidders on state contracts must sign.
- Requires contractors and subcontractors for these AI products to pay workers at least a living wage and ensure workplaces are free from psychological harms.
- Redefines 'sweatshop labor' to include work that violates the conditions in the Sweatfree AI Code of Conduct.
Who It Names or Affects
- State agencies buying artificial intelligence products or services that require data enrichment.
- Contractors and subcontractors bidding on state contracts for these specific AI projects.
- Workers performing tasks like content moderation, data labeling, model training, evaluation, AI Fauxtomation, or data annotation.
Terms To Know
- Foundation models
- Modern artificial intelligence systems at the frontier of development that are being studied for labor practices in this bill.
- Data enrichment services
- Services used to create, deploy, or test AI models to ensure safe data, including content moderation, labeling, training, evaluation, and annotation.
- Sweatfree AI Code of Conduct
- A set of rules for state contracts requiring fair wages, psychological safety, and no forced or sweatshop labor in the production of certain AI products.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill requires a report on recommendations but does not immediately mandate specific procurement standards beyond the certification requirements.
- The final details of how independent monitoring will work depend on future updates to the contractor responsibility program by July 1, 2027.