AI Frontier Institute

Adopt the Transparency in Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Act, create a fund, and change provisions relating to records which may be withheld from the public

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LB1083 (Nebraska, 2026) did not pass; it was indefinitely postponed on 2026-04-17. It would have enacted the Transparency in Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Act (Sections 1 to 9), operative January 1, 2027 (Sec. 12). The act would have applied to "large frontier developers" (frontier models trained with more than 10^26 operations, and annual revenue of $500 million or more) and "large chatbot providers" (covered chatbots with at least one million monthly users that minors are likely to access, and annual revenue of $25 million or more) (Sec. 3). Each would have had to publish a public safety and child protection plan for managing catastrophic risks (mass-casualty weapons, serious cyberattacks, loss of control) and child safety risks. They would have had to update it within 30 days of a material change and publish risk-assessment summaries before deploying or integrating new or substantially modified models (Sec. 4). Materially false or misleading statements about covered risks or plan compliance would have been prohibited, with a good-faith exception. Trade-secret and security redactions would have been allowed (Sec. 4). Critical safety incidents and child safety incidents would have had to be reported to the Attorney General within 15 days. Imminent-danger incidents would have had to be disclosed to authorities within 24 hours. Large frontier developers would have had to send quarterly summaries of internal-use catastrophic risk assessments. The Attorney General would have set up reporting mechanisms and could have deemed federal standards equivalent (Sec. 5). The Attorney General would also have reviewed and could have updated the key definitions annually starting January 1, 2027 (Sec. 6). Whistleblower protections would have covered employees, with a private right of action and an anonymous internal reporting process (Sec. 7). The Attorney General could have sued, with civil penalties up to $1 million per violation for large frontier developers and $50,000 for large chatbot providers (Sec. 8). The act's duties would have been cumulative with other law (Sec. 9). Sec. 10 would have created the Juvenile Mental Health Support Fund. Sec. 11 would have amended section 84-712.05 so that incident notifications, assessment summaries, and employee disclosures could be withheld from public records requests.

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