New Hampshire
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| State/Terr | AI Scope | Relevant Law | Law Link | Effective Date | Key Requirements | Enforcements & Penalties |
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| New Hampshire | AI in Political Advertising | New Hampshire AI Political Advertising Law | HB 1596 | March 27, 2024 | • Prohibits any person within 90 days of an election from distributing a message created using artificial intelligence that the person knows or should have known is a deepfake of a candidate, election official, or party on the state or local ballot (unless an appropriate disclaimer is provided). | Injunctive or other equitable relief and general or special damages. |
| New Hampshire | AI Deepfakes | New Hampshire Deepfake Act | HB 1432 | January 1, 2025 | • Makes it unlawful for any person to knowingly create, distribute, or present any likeness in video, audio, or any other media of an identifiable individual that constitutes a deepfake for the purpose of embarrassing, harassing, entrapping, defaming, extorting, or otherwise causing any financial or reputational harm to the identifiable person. | Class B Felony and Civil Damages. |
| New Hampshire | Automated Decision-Making | New Hampshire Privacy Act | N.H. Rev. Stat. § 507-H:8 | January 1, 2025 | • Provides consumers the right to opt-out of any form of automated processing performed on personal data to evaluate, analyze, or predict personal aspects related to an identified or identifiable individual’s economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements in furtherance of solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning the consumer (i.e., the provision or denial of financial or lending services, housing, insurance, education enrollment or opportunity, criminal justice, employment opportunities, health care services, or access to essential goods or services). _x000D_ • Requires a data protection assessment of each processing activity involving such automated processing of personal data in certain circumstances. _x000D_ _x000D_ Other obligations and restrictions may apply depending on the type of data processed. | Up to $10,000 for each violation. |
| New Hampshire | AI in Government | New Hampshire State Agency AI Bill | HB 1688 | July 1, 2024 | • Prohibits New Hampshire state agencies from: - Classifying persons based on behavior, socio-economic status, or personal characteristics resulting in unlawful discrimination against any individual person or group of persons. - Using real-time and remote biometric identification systems for surveillance in public spaces, such as facial recognition, except by law enforcement with a warrant. - Using deepfakes for any deceptive or malicious purpose. • Requires New Hampshire state agencies to also: - Ensure recommendations or decisions are reviewed by an appropriate human before taking effect where the recommendation or decision is produced by an AI system and cannot be reversed once implemented or executed. - Provide a disclosure that content was generated by AI where the content was produced by generative AI and has not been reviewed and possibly edited by an appropriate human. - Ensure humans interacting with an AI system, directly or indirectly, are informed they are interacting with an AI system. | N/A |
| New Hampshire | User-Facing AI | Responsive Generative Communication Law | New Hampshire Chapter 270:1 | January 1, 2026 | • Prohibits an owner or operator of a computer online service, Internet service, or bulletin board service, including a provider of an AI chat program, whose sole purpose is to provide responsive open-ended generative communication through the use of AI to knowingly direct a communication to a child that has the intent to facilitate, encourage, offer, solicit, or recommend that the child imminently engage in sexually explicit conduct (or the visual depiction of such conduct), the illegal use of drugs / alcohol, acts of self-harm or suicide, or any crime of violence against another person. | An owner or operator of such service shall be liable to a child, or the parent or next friend of the child, for damages proximately caused by a violation of the law, but in no instance liable for an amount less than liquidated damages in the amount of $1,000 per violation._x000D_ _x000D_ The AG's Office may also bring an action for violations. |
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