Alaska

Summary

Alaska has no enacted AI-behavior-specific law as of mid-2026. The primary bill in motion is Senate Bill 2 (34th Legislature, 2025–2026), a comprehensive package that would require state agencies to inventory and assess AI systems used for consequential decisions, give citizens rights against harmful government AI use, ban state-agency use of biometric identification and emotion-recognition AI, and mandate disclosure of AI-generated deepfakes in election communications. SB 2 was heard and held in the Senate State Affairs Committee and referred to Senate Judiciary; it has not passed as of June 2026. A companion bill from the prior session (SB 177, 33rd Legislature) died without enactment. House Bill 47, which passed the full House unanimously in February 2026, would criminalize AI-generated child sexual abuse material and restrict minors' social media access; it remained in the Senate Judiciary Committee as of June 2026. Senate Bill 33 (34th Legislature) would treat synthetic-media-based defamation as defamation per se and bar AI-altered media in electioneering communications; it is in the Senate State Affairs Committee. In the absence of AI-specific law, Alaska's general Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act (AS 45.50.471 et seq.) provides the applicable private-sector backstop: deceptive representations about the nature of a product or service — including passing off an AI agent as a human — constitute unlawful practices enforceable by the Attorney General or by private civil action. Federal FTC Act § 5 applies in parallel.