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AI Laws in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
As of 2026-06-17, AI Laws USA tracks 22 AI rules that apply to people and businesses in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 10+ federal protections, 6 Pennsylvania state-level rules, and 6 local Pittsburgh/county ordinances. Coverage is strongest on government use of AI, automated decision-making, consumer protection, and AI disclosure and transparency. 10 of these rules are already in effect. Each entry below links to its official source.
Pittsburgh local AI rules (and Allegheny County)
6 local AI rules specific to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania or Allegheny County.
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In effect Limited protection
Pittsburgh GenAI Use Policy
Pittsburgh, PA · City of Pittsburgh internal GenAI policy (2023, updated 2024)
Pittsburgh adopted an internal policy on generative AI use by city staff, informed by the University of Pittsburgh's Task Force on Public Algorithms. It bars staff from entering private city data into tools like ChatGPT, prohibits AI use in applications that affect residents' rights or safety, forbids relying on generative AI for decisions, and requires AI use to be disclosed and logged.
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In effect Moderate protection
Pittsburgh Regulation of Facial Recognition and Predictive Policing Technologies
Pittsburgh, PA · Effective 2020-09-22 · Pittsburgh File 2020-0647 (2020-09-22)
Requires council approval before city or police use of face-recognition or predictive-policing tools (state JNET excluded).
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In effect Moderate protection
Pittsburgh FR & Predictive Policing Limits
Pittsburgh, PA · Effective 2020-09-30 · Pittsburgh, Pa., Ordinance from File No. 2020-0647 (Sept. 22, 2020)
Pittsburgh requires City Council approval before the city, including the police, can buy or use facial recognition or predictive policing technology. Use of those tools without Council approval is prohibited.
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Proposed / pending Proposed or pending
Pittsburgh GenAI Resolution (proposed)
Pittsburgh, PA · Pittsburgh City Council Res. No. 2024-1212 (proposed)
Proposed Pittsburgh resolution directing the Department of Innovation and Performance to publish citywide guidelines on city employee use of generative AI tools.
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Proposed / pending Proposed or pending
Pittsburgh Data Center Study (proposed)
Pittsburgh, PA · Pittsburgh City Council Res. No. 2024-0521 (proposed)
Proposed Pittsburgh council resolution directing a study of data-center growth in Allegheny County and recommending zoning and energy-policy responses for the city.
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In effect Limited protection
PA Allegheny AFST
Allegheny County, PA · Effective 2016-08-01 · Allegheny County DHS AFST Methodology (May 2019 update)
Allegheny County deploys a predictive risk model — the Allegheny Family Screening Tool — to score child-welfare hotline calls. Decisions to screen-in cases for investigation incorporate AFST scores. The DOJ has investigated the tool for ADA discrimination concerns; the county continues to operate it with documented protocols.
Pennsylvania-level AI rules
6 Pennsylvania state rules apply to residents and businesses in Pittsburgh. Sorted strongest first.
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In effect Moderate protection
PA Act 130 of 2022 (HAVs)
Pennsylvania · Effective 2022-11-03 · Act 130 of 2022; 75 Pa. C.S. Ch. 88
Pennsylvania's comprehensive AV law authorized fully driverless operation, created a PennDOT permitting regime for testing and commercial deployment, required incident reporting to PennDOT and State Police, and authorized 'highly automated work zone vehicles' and platooning. Pennsylvania had been an AV testing hub since 2016 under non-statutory PennDOT guidance; Act 130 finally codified the framework.
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In effect Moderate protection
PA EO 2023-19 (GenAI)
PA · Effective 2023-09-20 · Pa. Exec. Order No. 2023-19 (Sept. 20, 2023)
Governor Shapiro's EO 2023-19 establishes Pennsylvania's Generative AI Governing Board and sets 10 core values (accuracy, equity, privacy, security, transparency, accountability, employee empowerment, sustainability, innovation, and human dignity) that govern Commonwealth agencies' use of generative AI tools.
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In effect Limited protection
PA PDD law (Act 130/2020)
Pennsylvania · Effective 2021-01-04 · Act 130 of 2020; 75 Pa. C.S. § 3550
Pennsylvania authorized personal delivery devices to operate on sidewalks, shoulders, and roadways up to 25 mph (high relative to most PDD laws), requires $100,000 liability insurance, and reserves limited regulation to local governments.
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In effect Limited protection
PA DOI AI Bulletin
PA · Effective 2024-04-06 · Pennsylvania ID Insurance Notice 2024-04 (54 Pa.B. 1910) (2024-04-06)
The PA Department of Insurance adopted the NAIC Model Bulletin on Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurers. Insurers licensed in PA must maintain a written AI program with governance, risk-management, testing, third-party-AI oversight, and documentation controls. The bulletin operationalizes existing unfair-trade-practice and unfair-discrimination law as applied to insurers' AI use cases — underwriting, pricing, claims, fraud detection, and marketing.
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In effect Limited protection
PA Digital Forgery Law
Pennsylvania · Effective 2025-09-05 · 2025 Pa. Laws Act 35 (SB 649); 18 Pa. C.S. § 4935
Pennsylvania created the crime of 'digital forgery': making a forged AI-generated likeness of someone with intent to defraud or injure is a first-degree misdemeanor, escalating to a third-degree felony for financial fraud — directly targeting AI voice-clone scams like fake grandchild emergency calls. A clear fake-content disclaimer is an affirmative defense.
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In effect Limited protection
PA Deepfake/CSAM Law (Act 125)
Pennsylvania · Effective 2024-10-01 · 2024 Pa. Laws Act 125 (SB 22); 18 Pa. C.S. §§ 3131, 6312
Pennsylvania criminalized creating and distributing sexual deepfakes of any person, and classified AI-generated sexual depictions of minors as child sexual abuse material. The Attorney General has already charged people under this law.
Federal AI rules that apply in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
These federal protections apply everywhere in the United States, including Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 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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