Rhode Island’s new AI and healthcare privacy law

We recently published an article to commemorate AI Appreciation Day , but readers may also appreciate a law that recently passed In Rhode Island, known as the “ Use of Artificial Intelligence by Healthcare Providers Notification Act .” The bill went into effect on June 16, 2026. The law’s stated purpose is “is to ensure patients are properly notified of the use of artificial intelligence by healthcare providers.” The law contains three definitions, two for healthcare (“Healthcare providers” and “healthcare facility”), and the third definition is for AI: “any technology that can simulate human intelligence including, but not limited to, natural language processing, training language models, reinforcement learning from human feedback and machine learning systems.” Unlike many other states’ AI laws that can require multiple pages to explain, Section 23-106-3 of Rhode Island General Statutes reads in its entirety: Any