New York Consolidated Laws, General Business Law - GBS § 1700. Definitions

1. “Artificial intelligence”, “artificial intelligence technology”, or “AI” means a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments, and that uses machine- and human-based inputs to perceive real and virtual environments, abstract such perceptions into models through analysis in an automated manner, and use model inference to formulate options for information or action.

2. “Generative artificial intelligence” means a class of AI models that emulate the structure and characteristics of input data to generate derived synthetic content, including, but not limited to, images, videos, audio, text, and other digital content.

3. “AI model” means a component of an information system that implements artificial intelligence technology and uses computational, statistical, or machine-learning techniques to produce outputs from a given set of inputs.

5. “Operator” means any person, partnership, association, firm, or business entity, or any member, affiliate, subsidiary or beneficial owner of any partnership, association, firm, or business entity who operates for or provides an AI companion to a user.

6. “Person” means any natural person.

7. “Emotional recognition algorithms” means artificial intelligence that detects and interprets human emotional signals in text (using natural language processing and sentiment analysis), audio (using voice emotion AI), video (using facial movement analysis, gait analysis, or physiological signals), or a combination thereof.

8. “User” means any person who uses an AI companion for personal use within the state and who is not an operator or agent or affiliate of the operator of the AI companion.

9. “Self-harm” means intentional self-injury with or without the intent to cause death.