Top Stories – May 27, 2026
1. Connecticut Enacts AIRT Act – Comprehensive AI Law Covering Employment, Safety, and Frontier Models Tier 1
Source: CT Mirror | Date: May 1, 2026
Connecticut signed SB 5, the AI Responsibility and Transparency Act, requiring employers to disclose automated hiring tools and ensure meaningful human review, banning unsafe AI companion apps that lack suicide-prevention safeguards, and mandating anonymous internal whistleblower programs at large frontier AI developers by January 2027.
2. Maryland Signs HB 895 Prohibiting Algorithmic Price-Setting Without Disclosure Tier 1
Source: Troutman Privacy | Date: May 25, 2026
Maryland enacted HB 895, prohibiting the use of algorithmically set prices and requiring companies to disclose when automated pricing systems are in use – extending AI accountability rules beyond high-risk decisions into everyday consumer transactions.
3. UK ICO Consultation on Automated Decision-Making in Recruitment Closes May 29 Tier 2
Source: Inside Privacy | Date: May 2026
The UK ICO consultation on draft guidance requiring meaningful human involvement in AI-assisted hiring – including that reviewers must have authority to change outcomes, not merely endorse them – closes in two days on May 29, 2026.
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