On July 16, roughly 200 delegates, including Nobel laureates and former heads of state and government, signed a declaration in Rome calling for broad global governance of artificial intelligence. Ten days earlier, in Chicago, Illinois, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law requiring large frontier AI developers to submit to independent annual audits. Pritzker’s act received less fanfare—but it may ultimately matter more for the way AI risks are regulated around the world.
The Illinois law joins earlier legislation passed in California and New York that, together, will impact every major AI developer in the United States. Collectively, these laws require AI companies to publicly document how they manage catastrophic risk, report safety incidents to state authorities, and, with Illinois’s new legislation, open their safety frameworks to external scrutiny.
On July 16, roughly 200 delegates, including Nobel laureates and former heads of state and government, signed a declaration in Rome calling for broad global governance of artificial intelligence. Ten days earlier, in Chicago, Illinois, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law requiring large frontier AI developers to submit to independent annual audits. Pritzker’s act received less fanfare—but it may ultimately matter more for the way AI risks are regulated around the world.
