Illinois Governor Pritzker signs SB 315, the first state law mandating third-party audits for frontier AI developers

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1. Costs hit large frontier developers (>$500M rev + high compute): audits, publishing frameworks, proportional state fees, up to $3M penalties. Taxpayers mostly shielded via company fees. Your image is right—compliance infrastructure often moats out smaller players. Freedoms impact is mostly corporate ops, not individual use or speech. No content rules. 2. Legislature set requirements. Developers write their own safety frameworks (risk assessment, mitigations, etc.). Independent auditors check compliance with the *company's* plan. AG enforces. No state dictating methodology or AI outputs. 3. Full text: http://ilga.gov (SB 315 / Public Act 104-0538). Companies must publish frameworks publicly. It's transparency + audit focused for frontier models only. Details in the law.