OpenAI Wants IL Bill That Would Exempt Them From Most Damages
What have I been telling you about AI? They have a shitty, shitty product -- AND they want us to pay for it.
OpenAI really, really wants an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to cause serious harm, such as death or serious injury of 100 or more people or at least $1 billion in property damage.
Think about that. Several AI policy experts tell WIRED that SB 3444—which could set a new standard for the industry—is a more extreme measure than bills OpenAI has supported in the past.
The bill would shield frontier AI developers from liability for “critical harms” caused by their frontier models as long as they did not intentionally or recklessly cause such an incident, and have published safety, security, and transparency reports on their website. It defines frontier model as any AI model trained using more than $100 million in computational costs, which likely could apply to America’s largest AI labs like OpenAI, Google, xAI, Anthropic, and Meta.