WyomingAI regulation

Regulation Status

• Wyoming has no comprehensive AI statute and instead addresses AI mainly through criminal law targeting synthetic sexual content and through liability rules that channel accountability to human bad actors. Long-standing provisions already reach AI-generated material: the sexual-exploitation-of-children offense (Wyo. Stat. Sec. 6-4-303) defines child pornography to include computer-generated images, and the intimate-image offense (Wyo. Stat. Sec. 6-4-306) extends the unlawful-dissemination and minor-depiction offenses to computer-generated and synthetic depictions regardless of whether a real child was involved.
• Wyoming's principal AI measures create several felonies and liability rules. They prohibit the distribution and promotion of nonconsensual synthetic sexual material (Wyo. Stat. Sec. 6-4-307), bar the creation or distribution of synthetic sexual material involving minors and of AI systems designed for child pornography (Wyo. Stat. Secs. 6-4-303 and 6-4-308), and prohibit developing or distributing AI systems that intentionally promote self-harm (Wyo. Stat. Sec. 6-4-701), each punishable by up to 10 to 12 years' imprisonment and fines up to $10,000 depending on the offense and repeat-offense status.
• Wyoming also sets an AI-liability posture: it shields AI developers from civil liability for damages arising from a third party's use of the system for illegal or harmful purposes unless the system was developed with knowledge or intent that its primary purpose would be unlawful (Wyo. Stat. Sec. 1-1-143), and it confirms that using an AI system to commit an offense is not a defense to criminal charges (Wyo. Stat. Sec. 6-1-206).