AI Frontier Institute

AI SAFETY MEASURES ACT

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Illinois SB3312, introduced February 3, 2026 by Sen. Mary Edly-Allen, creates the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act (Section 1). Section 5 defines key terms: a 'frontier model' is a foundation model trained using more than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations; a 'frontier developer' is a person who has trained or initiated training of such a model; and a 'large frontier developer' is a frontier developer with annual gross revenues exceeding $500,000,000 together with affiliates. 'Catastrophic risk' covers foreseeable material risks of death or serious injury to more than 50 people, or more than $1 billion in property damage, from a single incident involving CBRN weapon assistance, autonomous cyberattacks or violent crimes, or a model evading developer control. Section 10 requires large frontier developers to write, implement, and publicly post a 'frontier AI framework' covering catastrophic risk assessment thresholds, mitigation, third-party evaluations, cybersecurity for unreleased model weights, and internal governance; the framework must be reviewed at least annually and material modifications published within 30 days. Before deploying a new or substantially modified frontier model, developers must publish a transparency report with details including intended uses, supported languages and modalities, and summaries of catastrophic-risk assessments (Section 10(c)). Large frontier developers must also transmit quarterly summaries of internal-use catastrophic-risk assessments to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security (Section 10(d)). Section 15 requires frontier developers to report critical safety incidents to the Agency within 15 days of discovery, or within 24 hours if there is imminent risk of death or serious injury; the Agency must establish a confidential reporting mechanism and produce anonymized annual reports beginning January 1, 2028. Civil penalties of up to $1,000,000 per violation, recoverable by the Attorney General, apply for noncompliance under Section 25. Section 20 directs the Department of Innovation and Technology to assess and recommend updates to key definitions by January 1, 2028, and annually thereafter, accounting for technological developments and international standards. Section 30 establishes within the Department of Innovation and Technology a consortium to develop a framework for ILCompute, a public cloud computing cluster preferably housed at the University of Illinois, with a framework report due to the General Assembly by January 1, 2028. Section 80 amends 5 ILCS 140/7.5 of the Freedom of Information Act to exempt critical safety incident reports and internal-use catastrophic-risk assessment summaries submitted under Section 15(f) and Section 10(d) from public disclosure.

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