Wyoming

Summary

Wyoming has enacted no comprehensive AI governance law and has explicitly rejected broader AI regulation proposals. The Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Technology set aside AI governance bills in September 2024 and examined other states' approaches through mid-2025 without advancing legislation. The two enacted instruments to date are narrowly scoped criminal statutes: HB0102 (2026), effective July 1, 2026, which creates criminal offenses for AI-generated child sexual abuse material, nonconsensual synthetic sexual deepfakes, AI systems that promote self-harm, and AI tools used to censor political speech; and Senate File 0127 (2025), enacted by legislative veto override after the governor's veto, which added criminal penalties for nonconsensual distribution of synthetic sexual material involving adults. A 2026 Budget Session bill (HB0091) that would have prohibited government entities from using AI for social scoring or biometric identification did not appear to reach final enactment. In the absence of state-specific AI law, the Wyoming Consumer Protection Act and the federal Federal Trade Commission Act Section 5 (prohibiting unfair or deceptive practices) provide the applicable general legal framework for undisclosed bots, deceptive AI interfaces, and automated decision tools targeting Wyoming consumers.