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Government agency disclosure of artificial intelligence systems that interact with consumers
E2SHB 1170, ch. 167, Laws of 2026, Sec. 6 (new chapter, Title 42 RCW)
An AI transparency rule binding government bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Content labelling, Disclosure
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are a government agency that makes available an artificial intelligence system intended to interact with consumers, disclose to each consumer, before or at the time of interaction, that the consumer is interacting with an artificial intelligence system (E2SHB 1170, Sec. 6(1)).
- Make the disclosure clearly and conspicuously posted, in plain language, and without a dark pattern; you may provide it by a hyperlink to a separate web page, and you must provide it even where it would be obvious to a reasonable consumer that the consumer is interacting with an artificial intelligence system (E2SHB 1170, Sec. 6(1) to (3)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 6 requires a disclosure to each consumer and names no log contents, no retention period and no later production of a record to an auditor.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
A government agency that makes available an artificial intelligence system intended to interact with consumers must disclose to each consumer, before or at the time of interaction, that the consumer is interacting with an artificial intelligence system. The disclosure must be clearly and conspicuously posted, written in plain language, and free of any dark pattern. The disclosure may be provided by using a hyperlink to direct a consumer to a separate web page.
An agency must make the disclosure whether or not it would be obvious to a reasonable consumer that the consumer is interacting with an artificial intelligence system. Section 6 of the act constitutes a new chapter in Title 42 RCW. The act takes effect on .
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app deploys a chatbot.
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