SITUATION EXPLAINED: Why is Illinois SB 315 the first state AI safety law with mandatory third-party audits when California and New York both tried and failed first?
We asked @Thomas_Woodside, Co-founder at Secure AI Project.
"Every year AI companies are gonna have to have a third party come in, and that third party is going to have to check, did you follow your own plan? Did you make false or misleading statements about catastrophic risk? So it's actually checking that someone's doing it."
"Under the existing laws, there was no real way of checking. It was if you saw something publicly, maybe that could result in an enforcement action, but there's no ongoing checks."
"SB 53 in California and the RAISE Act in New York, the laws that I mentioned at the beginning that were signed last year, those both had auditing requirements similar to the Illinois requirement that's now in place, for only annual audits."
"Those were both removed from those bills before those bills passed because there was a lot of pressure from AI companies to remove them because they specifically didn't like that provision."
