Illinois Senate Bill 3444 (SB3444) would create an Artificial Intelligence Safety Act that regulates developers of large “frontier” AI models. It limits liability for certain AI-related harms unless developers acted intentionally or recklessly, and requires them to publish safety protocols and transparency reports. Wired writes:
OpenAI is throwing its support behind an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to cause serious societal harms, such as death or serious injury of 100 or more people or at least $1 billion in property damage. […]
The bill would shield frontier AI developers from liability for “critical harms” caused by their frontier models as long as they did not intentionally or recklessly cause such an incident, and have published safety, security, and transparency reports on their website. It defines a frontier model as any AI model trained using more than $100 million in computational costs, which likely could apply to America’s largest AI labs, like OpenAI, Google, xAI, Anthropic, and Meta. […]
OpenAI is backing an Illinois bill that would limit liability for AI companies in rare but extreme cases such as mass casualty events or major financial disasters, provided there is no intentional or reckless misconduct and firms publish safety disclosures.
The bill includes provisions focused on high-impact AI risks, including scenarios involving mass harm or large-scale financial damage.
“Critical harm” means the death or serious injury of 100 or more people or at least $1,000,000,000 of damages to rights in property caused or materially enabled by a frontier model”
The bill also allows compliance through adherence to EU AI safety rules or agreements with US federal agencies, and it can be superseded if federal AI regulations are enacted.
