{"id":252923,"date":"2026-05-22T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/bill-regulating-powerful-ai-models-advances-as-advocates-say-its-only-the-first-step\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:30:09","slug":"bill-regulating-powerful-ai-models-advances-as-advocates-say-its-only-the-first-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/bill-regulating-powerful-ai-models-advances-as-advocates-say-its-only-the-first-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill regulating powerful AI models advances as advocates say it\u2019s only the first step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wifr.com\/2026\/05\/22\/bill-regulating-powerful-ai-models-advances-advocates-say-its-only-first-step\/\">Bill regulating powerful AI models advances as advocates say it\u2019s only the first step<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wifr.com\/2026\/05\/22\/bill-regulating-powerful-ai-models-advances-advocates-say-its-only-first-step\/\">https:\/\/www.wifr.com\/2026\/05\/22\/bill-regulating-powerful-ai-models-advances-advocates-say-its-only-first-step\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 18:54:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wifr.com\">www.wifr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Article Summary<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A bill that seeks to regulate the most powerful artificial intelligence models passed the Illinois Senate this week.<\/li>\n<li>The bill is part of a larger package regulating AI and is modeled after legislation in California and New York as states seek to establish a national regulatory standard.<\/li>\n<li>Advocates of regulation say it\u2019s only the beginning, as AI continues to rapidly evolve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to advance a bill that would regulate how large artificial intelligence model developers handle transparency and catastrophic risk.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Bill 315 is part of an eight-bill package and is modeled after similar legislation in New York and California as lawmakers, at the urging of industry lobbyists, seek to establish a \u201cde facto\u201d national AI standard.<\/p>\n<p>Announced on May 13, the bill would require large developers like Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to adopt a transparency framework, employ third-party auditors and report a model\u2019s catastrophic risk capabilities. It passed the Senate 52-5.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as President Donald Trump recently floated the possibility of a second AI-related executive order, this time directing developers on how to report powerful models to federal officials. Trump previously issued an order discouraging states from regulation, but state lawmakers cited a lack of federal movement as their reason for moving forward with regulations.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Mary Edly-Allen\u2019s bill is functionally the same as California\u2019s and New York\u2019s laws, which both passed in late 2025. It would require large developers with revenues over $500 million \u2014 a threshold tailored to capture only the largest entities \u2014 to create, publish and adhere to a transparency framework explaining how the company applies industry standards, measures model capabilities and chance of catastrophic risk, and identifies and responds to safety incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Three&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wifr.com\/2026\/05\/22\/bill-regulating-powerful-ai-models-advances-advocates-say-its-only-first-step\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill regulating powerful AI models advances as advocates say it\u2019s only the first step https:\/\/www.wifr.com\/2026\/05\/22\/bill-regulating-powerful-ai-models-advances-advocates-say-its-only-first-step\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wifr-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/4OT2GSWBT5CRNE2HDMHGZ3ZFNA.jpg?auth=1546293732c193904bb1c8cf5be0077a60c8c9287a7e146e24feff8d072adf0c&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252926,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252923\/revisions\/252926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}