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AI Laws in Albany, New York
As of 2026-06-17, AI Laws USA tracks 39 AI rules that apply to people and businesses in Albany, New York: 10+ federal protections, 28 New York state-level rules, and 1 local Albany ordinance. Coverage is strongest on deepfakes, automated decision-making, AI-generated images, and consumer protection. 21 of these rules are already in effect. Each entry below links to its official source.
Albany local AI rules
1 local AI rule specific to Albany, New York.
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Proposed / pending Proposed or pending
Albany NY AI Procurement
Albany, NY · StateScoop, June 2026
Albany, New York's Common Council introduced an ordinance requiring disclosure of city AI procurements and impact assessments for high-risk uses.
New York-level AI rules most relevant to Albany
28 New York state rules apply to residents and businesses in Albany. Showing the 8 most relevant to Albany's local picture; 20 more are on the New York jurisdiction page.
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In effect Moderate protection
NY AG
NY · Effective 2024-10-17 · NY AG — Symposium Report on the Next Decade of AI (enforcement priorities) (2024-10-17)
James outlines enforcement priorities: hiring tool bias, GenAI misinformation, deepfakes, ADS. References LL144 precedent; previews state ADS guidance and legislative recommendations.
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In effect Limited protection
NY AV testing pilot
New York · Effective 2017-04-10 · N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 1226; Part FF, Ch. 55, Laws of 2017
New York requires AV operators to obtain DMV pilot-program authorization, maintain a licensed human safety driver behind the wheel, post a $5 million insurance bond, and coordinate with State Police for each test deployment. New York remains one of the most restrictive states — fully driverless operation is not authorized as of 2026.
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In effect Limited protection
NY Bar AI Report
NY · Effective 2024-04-06 · NYSBA AI Task Force Report (Apr. 6, 2024)
The New York State Bar adopted recommendations on AI in legal practice covering competence, confidentiality, supervision, candor to the court, and advertising — explicitly noting that 'hallucination' sanctions in Mata v. Avianca apply to all New York lawyers using AI.
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In effect Moderate protection
New York LOADinG Act (oversight of state-agency automated decisions)
New York · Effective 2024-12-21 · N.Y. State Technology Law (LOADinG Act); L. 2024, ch. 674 (S7543B)
State agencies in New York must publicly list the automated decision-making tools they use, run and publish impact assessments on them, and keep meaningful human review for tools that hand out public benefits or affect people's rights, safety, or welfare. Agencies also cannot use automated systems to make internal employment decisions that would lay off or displace staff.
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In effect Limited protection
New York A433 (state agencies must list AI employment tools)
New York · Effective 2025-07-01 · N.Y. State Technology Law / Civil Service Law; L. 2025, ch. 96 (A433)
Any New York State agency that uses an automated tool to help make employment decisions must publicly list those tools, and the state's IT office must keep a public inventory of state-agency AI systems that affect the public. The law also protects state workers' existing collective-bargaining rights and bars using AI to displace them.
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In effect Limited protection
New York S8831 (shields public employees from AI displacement)
New York · Effective 2026-02-13 · N.Y. S8831 (2025)
This law amends New York's education, state technology, and civil service laws to protect public employees from harms caused by artificial intelligence systems. It guards against AI being used in ways that would impair workers' collective-bargaining rights, lead to their discharge or displacement, transfer their job duties to an AI system, or cut their hours, wages, or benefits.
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In effect Limited protection
New York S8420A (ads must disclose AI 'synthetic performers')
New York · Effective 2026-06-09 · N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law 396-b (S8420A, 2025)
When a business creates an advertisement for property or services for a commercial purpose, this law requires it to clearly disclose if the ad uses a 'synthetic performer' — a digitally created asset (made with generative AI or a software algorithm) meant to look like an audiovisual or visual performance by a human, where the figure is not recognizable as any identifiable real person. Penalties are $1,000 for a first violation and $5,000 for each subsequent violation.
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Expired Unknown
NY S3971B (2019, AI study commission, died)
NY · N.Y. S3971B (2019-20 Reg. Sess.) — died in Assembly
New York S3971B (Savino, 2019) would have created a temporary state commission to study AI regulation across New York agencies. Died in the Assembly Governmental Operations committee — but the commission framework became the model for later state AI task force statutes nationwide.
Federal AI rules that apply in Albany, New York
These federal protections apply everywhere in the United States, including Albany, New York. Showing the 10 strongest and most recent.
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In effect Stronger protection
Bartz v. Anthropic
N.D. Cal. · Effective 2025-09-05 · Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:24-cv-05417 (N.D. Cal.)
Authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sued Anthropic over its use of pirated-book datasets to train Claude. In June 2025 Judge William Alsup issued a split ruling: training on lawfully purchased books was fair use, but ingesting pirated copies from LibGen was not. In September 2025 Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion class settlement — the largest AI copyright recovery to date.
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In effect Stronger protection
Banner v. Tesla (Autopilot)
S.D. Fla. · Effective 2025-08-01 · Banner v. Tesla, Inc., No. 1:21-cv-21940 (S.D. Fla. Aug. 1, 2025)
A Florida federal jury found Tesla 33% liable in August 2025 for the 2019 death of Naibel Benavides Leon, in a crash involving Autopilot. The verdict awarded $243M (later reduced to ~$220M) — the first Autopilot wrongful-death verdict against Tesla.
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In effect Stronger protection
COPPA + 2025 Rule (childrens data)
United States · Effective 2025-06-23 · 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501–6506; 16 C.F.R. Part 312
COPPA requires online services aimed at children under 13 to get verifiable parental consent before collecting kids' personal data. The 2025 rule update — fully in effect since April 22, 2026 — adds biometric identifiers (like face templates and voiceprints, which matter for AI tools), requires separate parental consent before sharing children's data for targeted advertising, and tightens data retention limits.
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In effect Stronger protection
TAKE IT DOWN Act
United States · Effective 2025-05-19 · Pub. L. No. 119-12 (S. 146)
Makes it a federal crime to knowingly publish intimate images of someone without consent, including AI-generated deepfakes. Social media and similar platforms must give victims a way to request removal and must take the content (and known copies) down within 48 hours. The platform removal requirement became enforceable May 19, 2026, and the FTC has already begun enforcement.
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In effect Stronger protection
Thaler v. Perlmutter (Copyright)
D.C. Cir. · Effective 2025-03-18 · Thaler v. Perlmutter, 130 F.4th 1039 (D.C. Cir. 2025)
The companion copyright case: Stephen Thaler sought to register a copyright with 'Creativity Machine' (his AI) as the author. The D.C. Circuit affirmed in March 2025 that the Copyright Act's human-authorship requirement is constitutional and dispositive. AI cannot be a copyright author under U.S. law.
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In effect Stronger protection
Thomson Reuters v. Ross
D. Del. · Effective 2025-02-11 · Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence, Inc., 694 F. Supp. 3d 467 (D. Del. 2025)
Thomson Reuters sued legal-research startup Ross Intelligence in 2020 for copying Westlaw headnotes to train a competing AI legal-research tool. In February 2025, Judge Stephanos Bibas (sitting by designation) granted summary judgment to Thomson Reuters on direct copyright infringement and rejected Ross's fair-use defense — the first definitive U.S. ruling on AI-training fair use. The 2023 jury trial verdict had been deadlocked; the 2025 ruling resolved liability.
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In effect Stronger protection
Louis v. SafeRent
D. Mass. · Effective 2024-11-20 · Louis v. SafeRent Solutions, LLC, No. 1:22-cv-10800 (D. Mass.)
SafeRent agreed in November 2024 to a $2.275M settlement and a five-year ban on using its 'SafeRent Score' for housing-voucher applicants, after a class action alleged its AI tenant-screening tool systematically denied housing to Black and Hispanic Section 8 voucher holders. The first major AI tenant-screening Fair Housing Act settlement.
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In effect Stronger protection
NetChoice v. Yost (Ohio)
S.D. Ohio · Effective 2024-04-30 · NetChoice, LLC v. Yost, No. 2:24-cv-00047 (S.D. Ohio Apr. 30, 2024)
Ohio's Social Media Parental Notification Act — requiring parental consent for minors' social-media use, including algorithmic feeds — was permanently enjoined as unconstitutional in April 2024.
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In effect Stronger protection
FTC Impersonation Rule (AI)
United States · Effective 2024-04-01 · 16 C.F.R. Part 461; 89 Fed. Reg. 15017
The FTC's Impersonation Rule lets the agency directly sue scammers who pretend to be a government agency or a real business — including those who use AI-cloned voices or generated images to do so. Civil penalties can reach $53,088 per violation. The FTC also issued a supplemental notice in February 2024 proposing to extend the rule to all individual impersonation.
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In effect Stronger protection
TCPA (AI voice calls)
United States · Effective 2024-02-08 · 47 U.S.C. § 227; FCC 24-17
Robocalls using AI-cloned or AI-generated voices are treated like other 'artificial voice' calls: callers need your prior express consent, must identify themselves, and must offer opt-outs for telemarketing. You can personally sue violators for $500 to $1,500 per illegal call.
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