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A4732
ASSEMBLY, No. 4732
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
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INTRODUCED MARCH 10, 2026
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman� MARISA SWEENEY
District 25 (Morris and Passaic)
Assemblyman� DAVID BAILEY, JR.
District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)
Assemblywoman� LINDA S. CARTER
District 22 (Somerset and Union)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Venezia and Assemblywoman Dunn
SYNOPSIS
���� Requires artificial intelligence companion operators
to provide notifications that users are not communicating with human.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
���� As introduced.
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An Act
concerning artificial intelligence companion models and
supplementing Title 56 of the Revised Statutes.
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Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:
���� 1.��� As used in
P.L. , c.
(C. ) (pending before the
Legislature as this bill):
���� �Artificial intelligence
companion� or �AI companion� means a system using generative artificial
intelligence designed to simulate a sustained human or human-like relationship
with a user by: �(1) retaining information from prior interactions, prior user
sessions, or user preferences to personalize the interaction and to facilitate
ongoing engagement with the AI companion; (2) asking unprompted or unsolicited
emotion-based questions that go beyond a direct response to a user prompt; and
(3) sustaining an ongoing dialogue concerning matters personal to the user.
���� �Generative artificial
intelligence� means a technology system that: �(1) is trained on data; (2) is
designed to simulate human communication through text, audio, or visual
communication; and (3) generates non-scripted outputs with limited or no human
oversight.
���� �Human or human-like
relationship� includes, but is not limited to, intimate, romantic, or platonic
interactions or companionship, and the simulation of intimate, romantic, or
platonic interactions or companionship.
���� �Operator� means any individual,
partnership, association, firm, or business entity, or any member, affiliate,
subsidiary or beneficial owner of any partnership, association, firm, or
business entity who operates for or provides an AI companion to a user.
���� �User� means any individual
who uses an AI companion for personal use within the State and who is not an
operator or agent or affiliate of the operator of the AI companion.
���� 2.��� An operator shall
provide clear and conspicuous notification to a user at the beginning of any AI
companion interaction that the user is not communicating with a human.� This
notification shall be provided either verbally or in writing.� Thereafter, the
notification shall repeat at least every three hours for continued AI companion
interactions.
���� 3.��� Any operator that
violates the provisions of P.L. , c.
(C. ) (pending before the
Legislature as this bill) shall be subject to a civil penalty of $15,000 for
each violation, to be collected in a civil action by a summary proceeding under
the "Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999," P.L.1999, c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et
seq.).� The Superior Court and the municipal court shall have jurisdiction to
enforce the provisions of the �Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999,� P.L.1999,
c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et seq.) pursuant to this section.
���� 4.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.
STATEMENT
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This
bill requires an operator of an artificial intelligence (AI) companion to
provide clear and conspicuous notification to a user at the beginning of, and
periodically throughout, any AI companion interaction that the user is not
communicating with a human.� The notification is to be provided either verbally
or in writing.� After the notification is provided at the beginning of the
interaction, it is to be provided at least every three hours for continued AI
companion interactions.
���� The bill provides that an
operator found in violation of the provisions of the bill is to be subject to a
civil penalty of $15,000 for each violation.
���� As used in this bill, �AI
companion� means a system using generative artificial intelligence designed to
simulate a sustained human or human-like relationship with a user by: �(1)
retaining information from prior interactions, prior user sessions, or user
preferences to personalize the interaction and facilitate ongoing engagement
with the AI companion; (2) asking unprompted or unsolicited emotion-based
questions that go beyond a direct response to a user prompt; and (3) sustaining
an ongoing dialogue concerning matters personal to the user.� �Human or
human-like relationships� include, but are not limited to, intimate, romantic,
or platonic interactions or companionship, and simulations of intimate,
romantic, or platonic interactions or companionship.