Canada's federal government has introduced legislation aimed at AI chatbots, the kind people now use for homework help, advice and customer service.
Chatbots went from novelty to everyday tool fast, mostly with no rules beyond each company's own promises. A G7 country writing real standards moves the debate from whether to regulate to how well.
Still, a first step beats no step.
A bill in Illinois, SB 315, would be the first US law requiring independent audits of how frontier AI developers manage safety.
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