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Illinois Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act, SB 315 / Public Act 104-0538
Illinois enacted a frontier-AI safety law requiring large frontier-model developers to create, publish, implement, and annually update safety frameworks covering catastrophic-risk assessment, mitigations, governance, cybersecurity, third-party evaluation, internal-use risks, transparency reports, critical safety incident reporting, audits, whistleblower protections, penalties, and fees. This is significant because it shifts frontier-risk governance from voluntary self-attestation toward enforceable state-level reporting and audit infrastructure, with an effective date of January 1, 2027.
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Illinois enacted a frontier-AI safety law requiring large frontier-model developers to create, publish, implement, and annually update safety frameworks covering catastrophic-risk assessment, mitigations, governance, cybersecurity, third-party evaluation, internal-use risks, transparency reports, critical safety incident reporting, audits, whistleblower protections, penalties, and fees.
