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Wyoming
Artificial Intelligence Offenses (2026 Wyoming House Bill 102, Enrolled Act No. 32)
Wyo. Stat. Ann. §§ 6-4-307 6-4-308, 6-4-701, 6-1-206; see also §§ 1-1-143, 6-4-303(b)(v)-(vi) (2026 Wyo. Sess. Laws, House Enrolled Act No. 32)
In force since .
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not distribute, transmit, promote, or threaten to distribute AI-created or digitally altered synthetic sexual material that realistically depicts an identifiable person's intimate parts without that person's knowledge or consent, where the depicted person had a reasonable expectation of privacy and the distribution causes or is intended to cause harm.
- Do not knowingly develop or distribute an artificial intelligence system specifically designed to create, distribute, or promote child pornography or synthetic sexual material, with the intent or knowledge that the system will be used for that purpose; this reaches the tool itself, separately from generating or possessing the resulting content.
- Do not use an artificial intelligence system to generate or create child pornography, and do not possess child pornography known to have been generated by an artificial intelligence system; both are felonies under Wyoming's sexual exploitation of a child statute on the same terms as an authentic photograph.
- Do not knowingly develop or distribute an artificial intelligence system specifically designed, with the intent or knowledge that it will be so used, to promote self-harm.
- Using an artificial intelligence system to commit a criminal offense is not a defense to that offense in Wyoming.
- A developer of an artificial intelligence system is not liable for damages arising from another person's illegal or harmful use of the system, unless the developer built the system with the knowledge or intent that its primary purpose would be illegal or illicit activity.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-08Information Integrity
- GAI-RISK-11Obscene, Degrading, and/or Abusive Content
- MIT mitigations Draft
- NIST Privacy Framework
- CT.PO-P1Policies, processes, and procedures for authorizing data processing (e.g., organizational decisions, individual consent), revoking authorizations, and maintaining authorizations are established and in place.
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-005System Acceptance Testing
- ETSI EN 304 223
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Unlawful distribution of nonconsensual synthetic sexual material (§ 6-4-307(c)) is a felony punishable by imprisonment of not more than ten years and a fine of not more than $10,000, rising to twelve years' imprisonment (same $10,000 fine cap) for a second or subsequent conviction. Unlawful development or distribution of an AI system for child pornography (§ 6-4-308(d)) and unlawful development or distribution of an AI system to promote self-harm (§ 6-4-701(d)) are each felonies punishable by imprisonment of not more than ten years and a fine of not more than $10,000. Using an AI system to generate or create child pornography (§ 6-4-303(c), reaching paragraph (b)(v)) is a felony punishable by imprisonment of not less than five nor more than twelve years and a fine of not more than $10,000; possessing AI-generated child pornography (§ 6-4-303(d), reaching paragraph (b)(vi)) is a felony punishable by imprisonment of not more than ten years and a fine of not more than $10,000, rising to seven to twelve years for a second or subsequent conviction (§ 6-4-303(e)).
Penalty structure
Every offense in this bundle caps its fine at $10,000; the offenses differ only in the imprisonment term (three years to twelve years depending on the specific offense and whether it is a repeat conviction).
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Currency
- USD
- Fixed cap
- 10,000
What it makes you log
Logging duty
This bundle of sections prohibits distributing nonconsensual synthetic sexual material, developing or distributing an artificial intelligence system built to create child pornography or synthetic sexual material or to promote self-harm, using an artificial intelligence system to generate child pornography or possessing child pornography known to be artificial-intelligence-generated, and states that an artificial intelligence system cannot be used as a defense to a criminal charge. None of these sections requires anyone to log, record, or otherwise document anything; the developer civil-immunity section similarly imposes no record-keeping duty, only a knowledge-based exception to immunity.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 6-4-307 makes it a felony to knowingly distribute, transmit, or otherwise make available synthetic sexual material, defined as material created, altered, or manipulated through an AI system or another digital method to realistically depict the intimate parts of a specific person, that realistically depicts an identifiable person without that person's knowledge or consent under circumstances of a reasonable expectation of privacy, where the distribution causes or is intended to cause harm; the same section reaches promoting such material online and threatening to distribute it for a benefit.
Section 6-4-308 separately criminalizes knowingly developing or distributing an artificial intelligence system specifically designed to create, distribute, or promote child pornography or synthetic sexual material, where the developer intends or knows the system will be used for that purpose; a parallel new section 6-1-206 states that Wyoming's criminal code is not limited from applying to conduct facilitated by an AI system and that using an AI system to commit a crime is not a defense.
Section 6-4-303(b)(v) and (vi) add using an AI system to generate or create child pornography, or possessing child pornography known to have been generated by an AI system, as their own bases for the existing sexual-exploitation-of-a-child offense.
Article 7, section 6-4-701, criminalizes knowingly developing or distributing an artificial intelligence system specifically designed to promote self-harm, again gated on the developer's intent or knowledge that the system will be used for that purpose; each of these three system-level offenses exempts a system that produces the prohibited content solely from user prompts without the developer's intent to encourage it, and exempts interactive computer services, information services, and telecommunications services as defined by 47 U.S.C. §§ 230 and 153 for content provided by another person.
A new section 1-1-143 gives an AI system's developer civil immunity from damages arising from another person's illegal or harmful use of the system, unless the developer built the system knowing or intending that its primary purpose would be illegal or illicit activity.
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