Illinois governor forms AI cabinet; Redditors warn open weights face growing regulatory threat
winky9827 · reddit · 2026-09-23
Illinois Governor Pritzker signed an executive order creating an AI cabinet to assess risks and push guardrails, saying the state won't wait for Congress.
The poster argues these press releases echo closed-weights API vendors' narratives and threaten open-weight models, urging residents to write the governor and others to watch their state politics. A signal that state-level AI regulation is accelerating and the open-source community is starting to organize pushback.
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