Technology (Artificial Intelligence)

Creates the Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Workforce Transition Act. Establishes the Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Workforce Transition. Provides that the Commission shall direct specified State agencies to conduct assessments of the actual and projected impact of generative artificial intelligence systems and frontier artificial intelligence systems on Illinois industries, occupations, regions, and workers. Provides that the Commission shall identify, review, and make recommendations regarding State and federal workforce development, education, apprenticeship, unemployment insurance, and income support programs with consideration of the assessments. Requires specified State agencies to designate a senior staff liaison to the Commission and to conduct assessments, analyses, and data collection activities directed by the Commission. Provides that the Commission shall prepare and file an initial comprehensive report and biennial update reports concerning findings and recommendations. Sets forth provisions concerning membership; administrative support; meetings; and confidentiality. Repeals the Act on January 1, 2034. Effective immediately.

Appropriates $150,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Workforce Transition and to conduct the assessments required under the Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Workforce Transition Act. Effective July 1, 2026.

Amends the Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act. Defines "qualified research program". Provides that the prohibitions on unauthorized therapy services under the Act shall not apply to artificial intelligence-assisted therapy or psychotherapy services provided exclusively within a qualified research program. Sets forth requirements for qualified research programs. Requires a licensed professional participating in a qualified research program to perform certain actions. Provides that academic medical centers shall register existing research programs that meet the criteria for qualified research programs within 90 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Provides that the exemption shall apply only to services provided within the context of an approved research protocol and shall not extend to certain services. Sets forth requirements for academic medical centers conducting qualified research programs. Provides that research participants shall not be denied access to standard care as a condition of participating in research involving artificial intelligence-assisted therapy. Sets forth requirements for the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Provides penalties for any academic medical center or licensed professional found to have misrepresented a commercial service as qualifying for the research exemption, or to have otherwise violated the requirements of the amendatory Act. Requires the Department to submit a report to the General Assembly evaluating aspects of the qualified research programs. Repeals the provisions on January 1, 2030. Makes other changes.

Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education may provide statewide guidance to school districts concerning a workforce development curriculum or programming or both that can be adopted at the school district, school, or classroom level and that provides best practices for teaching artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and other types of rapidly growing technologies as deemed necessary, in a manner that prepares students for workforce, job, and career competencies in the future and informs students of new or growing job or career opportunities in these new fields. Provides that the State Board shall prepare a comprehensive review of any workforce development preparation curriculum and programming specifically designed around technology implemented or considered in other states through other state actions, policies, pilot programs, or school-based programs implemented or tested on a statewide or school-district basis. Provides that the State Superintendent of Education may convene meetings with stakeholders from the public or private sector in preparing the guidance and may allow for the submission of public comments from individuals, organizations, or other entities prior to finalizing the prepared guidance.

Creates the Artificial Intelligence Provenance Data Act. Provides that a covered artificial intelligence tool provider shall make available, at no cost to a person, a provenance label reading tool. Provides that a covered artificial intelligence tool provider shall include a provenance label in any image, video, or audio content instance created by its artificial intelligence. Sets forth requirements for large online platforms, capture device manufacturers, and third-party licensees and hosting platforms concerning provenance labels. Sets forth provisions concerning civil penalties. Effective January 1, 2027.

Creates the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act. Defines "frontier model", "frontier developer", and "large frontier developer". Requires large frontier developers to adopt and publish a frontier AI framework addressing catastrophic risk management, transparency, and cybersecurity. Mandates reporting of critical safety incidents to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security and establishes civil penalties for noncompliance. Directs the Department of Innovation and Technology to review and recommend updates to definitions and standards. Creates a consortium to develop ILCompute, a public cloud computing resource. Exempts specified information under the Freedom of Information Act. Makes conforming changes to the Freedom of Information Act.

Amends the Nurse Practice Act. In provisions concerning registered professional nurses, adds provisions concerning: the use of artificial intelligence in recorded or transcribed encounters; prohibition on substituting artificial intelligence for nursing services; use of artificial intelligence as clinical decision support under the control of a registered professional nurse; patient notice and transparency; confidentiality protections; exceptions for nonclinical activity; and defined terms. Amends the grounds for discipline to add violations of the artificial intelligence provisions by a registered professional nurse. Requires a health care entity that employs registered professional nurses and deploys artificial intelligence in direct patient care to maintain validation and bias monitoring records for each system and make such records available to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation upon request; provide registered professional nurses with training on intended use, data limits, and known failure modes; ensure registered professional nurses have access to data inputs and key factors that produced any recommendation used in direct patient care; and prohibit staffing, triage, admission, discharge, or transfer decisions that rely solely on artificial intelligence. Allows the Department to investigate any health care entity that employs registered professional nurses for a violation of the artificial intelligence provisions. Effective immediately.

Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education may provide statewide guidance to school districts concerning a workforce development curriculum or programming or both that can be adopted at the school district, school, or classroom level and that provides best practices for teaching artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and other types of rapidly growing technologies as deemed necessary, in a manner that prepares students for workforce, job, and career competencies in the future and informs students of new or growing job or career opportunities in these new fields. Provides that the State Board shall prepare a comprehensive review of any workforce development preparation curriculum and programming specifically designed around technology implemented or considered in other states through other state actions, policies, pilot programs, or school-based programs implemented or tested on a statewide or school-district basis. Provides that the State Superintendent of Education may convene meetings with stakeholders from the public or private sector in preparing the guidance and may allow for the submission of public comments from individuals, organizations, or other entities prior to finalizing the prepared guidance.

Creates the Artificial Intelligence Companion Model Safety Act. Provides that an operator shall not operate or provide an artificial intelligence companion to a user unless the artificial intelligence companion contains a protocol to take reasonable efforts to detect and address suicidal ideation or expressions of self-harm by a user to the artificial intelligence companion. Provides that an operator shall provide a clear and conspicuous notification to a user that states, either verbally or in text, that the user is not communicating with a human, at specified times. Provides for civil penalties. Provides that all moneys collected under the Act shall be deposited into the Statewide 9-8-8 Trust Fund. Amends the State Finance Act to make a conforming change. Effective January 1, 2027.

Creates the Provenance Data Requirements Act. Provides that a generative artificial intelligence tool provider shall apply provenance data, either directly or through the use of third-party technology, to wholly-generated synthetic content generated by the provider's generative artificial intelligence tool. Sets forth additional requirements on generative artificial intelligence tool providers, large online platforms, and manufacturers of capture devices. Defines terms.