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The Illinois House of Representatives passed a landmark bill Wednesday that would set a new standard for regulating America’s leading AI companies if Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) signs it. The bill, SB 315, mirrors existing provisions in legislation in California and New York requiring frontier AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic to create, publish, and annually update plans to address severe or catastrophic risks from their AI models. It would also mandate annual independent third-party audits of such AI companies on safety issues, which would be a first for any AI legislation in the U.S.

Voters are worried about AI and don’t trust either political party to handle the rapidly evolving technology, according to a new national NBC News survey. A majority of registered voters, 57 percent, said they believe the risks of AI outweigh its benefits, compared with 34 percent who said the opposite.