Illinois becomes first state to require third-party audit of AI models

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Monday signed a bill making the state the country’s first to mandate that the largest artificial intelligence labs obtain third-party audits of their safety plans.

Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act, or S.B. 315, in a ceremony Monday, stating people “want protection from the risks of AI.”

The bill mirrors similar legislation in California and New York but goes a step further by mandating frontier labs with more than $500 million in revenue to submit third-party audits of their safety plans every year. 

The third-party evaluations are intended to secure oversight of these AI firms “by qualified experts without financial conflicts of interest,” Pritzker added.

Like the legislation in California and New York, the bill also requires large frontier developers to create,........

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