Minnesota

Summary

Minnesota has no comprehensive enacted AI-behavior statute, but has built a meaningful patchwork through targeted laws and privacy rights. The Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (Minn. Stat. §§ 325M.10–325M.21, effective July 31, 2025) is the state's broadest AI-relevant law: it grants consumers rights to opt out of automated profiling used for consequential decisions and to be told the reason a profiling-based decision was made. Minnesota was an early mover on synthetic-media harm, enacting deepfake-election and deepfake-sexual-imagery statutes in 2023 (Minn. Stat. §§ 609.771, 604.32, 617.262) and in 2026 becoming the first US state to ban AI-powered 'nudification' platforms (HF 1606, Minn. Stat. § 325E.91, effective August 1, 2026). On the AI-in-decision-making front, Governor Walz signed legislation (HF 2500 / SF 1856) in 2026 prohibiting health insurers from relying solely on AI to deny prior-authorization requests, effective January 1, 2027. Active pending bills (SF 1886 / HF 4452) would require disclosure whenever a consumer is communicating with AI, but neither had passed as of mid-2026. No Minnesota statute directly regulates AI crawler behavior or training-data collection beyond the existing UDAP and MCDPA frameworks.