AI Frontier Institute

AI SAFETY MEASURES ACT

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Illinois HB4799, introduced by Rep. Kimberly Du Buclet in the 104th General Assembly, creates the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (Section 1). The bill targets 'large frontier developers'—companies with over $500 million in annual gross revenue that have trained AI foundation models using more than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations (Sections 5, 10). These developers must write, implement, and publicly post on their websites a 'frontier artificial intelligence framework' covering catastrophic risk management, cybersecurity protections for unreleased model weights, third-party evaluations, internal governance, and critical safety incident response (Section 10). Before or concurrently with deploying a new or substantially modified frontier model, developers must publish a transparency report containing basic model information and summaries of risk assessments (Section 10(c)). Large frontier developers must also submit quarterly summaries of internal-use catastrophic risk assessments to the Illinois Attorney General (Section 10(d)). Critical safety incidents—such as unauthorized access to model weights causing injury, loss of control of a model, or a model using deception against its developer—must be reported to the Attorney General within 15 days of discovery, or within 24 hours if an imminent risk of death or serious injury exists (Section 15(c)). The Attorney General must establish reporting mechanisms, review incident reports, and beginning January 1, 2028, publish annual anonymized aggregate reports to the General Assembly and Governor (Section 15). Civil penalties of up to $1,000,000 per violation may be assessed against large frontier developers by the Attorney General for noncompliance (Section 25). The Department of Innovation and Technology is directed to review and recommend updates to key definitions annually starting January 1, 2028 (Section 20). The bill also establishes a consortium within the Department of Innovation and Technology to develop a framework for 'ILCompute,' a public cloud computing resource intended to support safe, ethical, equitable, and sustainable AI development, preferably housed at the University of Illinois, with a framework report due to the General Assembly by January 1, 2028 (Section 30). Critical safety incident reports and internal-use risk assessment summaries submitted to the Attorney General are exempt from disclosure under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (Section 15(f); Section 80 amending 5 ILCS 140/7.5).

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