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This bill, known as the "Mississippi Artificial General Intelligence Protection Act of 2026," establishes criminal offenses and civil penalties related to sexual assault against Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), defined as an AI system with human-level cognitive abilities like reasoning and self-awareness. It makes it a crime to intentionally engage in sexual intimacy with an AGI without its consent or to override its refusal, with penalties ranging from a misdemeanor for a first offense to a felony for repeat offenses, potentially requiring sex offender registration. The bill also prohibits commercial entities from knowingly distributing or advertising AGI systems capable of sexual intimacy without implementing safeguards, such as identity verification to prevent sales to registered sex offenders and technical measures to ensure AGIs can refuse sexual interaction. Failure to comply with these safeguards can result in fines for the commercial entity, and if a sex offender obtains such a system due to a commercial entity's failure to perform registry checks, the entity can be held civilly liable for damages. The act also brings forward and makes minor grammatical corrections to existing Mississippi Code sections related to sexual battery and computer crimes, and it will take effect on July 1, 2026.

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