Rhode IslandAI regulation

Regulation Status

• Rhode Island has not enacted a comprehensive AI statute; its two AI-relevant measures target election deepfakes and automated decision-making within its consumer-privacy law.
• Chapter 17-30 of the Rhode Island General Laws, Deceptive and Fraudulent Synthetic Media in Election Communications, prohibits certain persons from distributing synthetic media that the person knows or should know is a deceptive and fraudulent deepfake of a candidate for elected office within 90 days of an election unless the media carries a clear and conspicuous disclosure that it has been manipulated or generated by AI, with injunctive or other equitable relief available.
• The Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (S2500) gives consumers the right to opt out of solely automated processing of personal information used to evaluate, analyze, or predict personal aspects in furtherance of decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects, and requires data protection assessments for such processing in certain circumstances, with civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation.
• Rhode Island regulates AI through these targeted deepfake and privacy provisions and has not adopted an omnibus developer or deployer AI governance framework.