MinnesotaAI regulation

Regulation Status

• Minnesota has built its AI framework from several targeted laws rather than an omnibus statute. HF 1370 creates a civil cause of action for the non-consensual dissemination of a deepfake that realistically depicts an intimate part of, or a sexual act by, a non-consenting identifiable individual, with civil penalties of up to $100,000 plus injunctive relief and up to a $1,000 daily fine for non-compliance. HF 2432 expands the state's child sexual abuse material statute to cover generative-AI-created images indistinguishable from an actual minor engaging in sexual conduct, with existing criminal penalties applying.
• Minnesota also addressed algorithmic systems through SF 4097, the Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act, which imposes transparency obligations on certain social-media companies to publicly disclose how their algorithmic ranking systems weight content quality and user preferences. The Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (Minn. Stat. § 325M et seq.) grants consumers rights to opt out of profiling and automated processing producing legal or similarly significant effects, to question and contest such decisions, to review the underlying data, and to have inaccurate data corrected and the decision reevaluated, with a data-protection-assessment requirement and enforcement of up to $7,500 per violation.
• Minnesota has not enacted a comprehensive frontier-model or algorithmic-discrimination act; its posture centers on synthetic-media and CSAM harms, social-media algorithmic transparency, and privacy-based automated-decision rights.