PA HB1533

Persons deploying AI systems for automated or autonomous functions face criminal and civil liability for negative outcomes including physical harm from autonomous vehicles/robotics, economic misconduct like price-fixing, unlawful data scraping, copyright infringement, privacy violations, algorithmic discrimination, and false or misleading AI-generated statements

Automating an action does not remove a person's general duty of care under common law

Deployers cannot avoid liability by claiming the AI acted autonomously, outcomes were unintended, a third party developed the system, or the AI was marketed as "safe" or "self-regulating"

Defenses are available only if the deployer implemented reasonable ongoing oversight, safeguards, and fail-safe mechanisms with timely corrective action, or if harm resulted solely from unforeseeable unauthorized interference despite reasonable security measures

Takes effect 60 days after enactment; "deployment" covers commercial, enterprise, and individual AI use affecting third parties but excludes secured experimental research models