141-word SIGN Act proposal would jail AI CEOs who lie about model safety
StephenLCasper · x · 2026-10-25
A proposal circulating on X calls for a 141-word law, SIGN (Safety Individually Guaranteed by Name): before releasing a frontier model, the CEO must sign that the company followed its own published safety plan, with knowing false signatures penalized like false accounting—up to 20 years in prison.
Key points:
- It doesn't demand models be perfectly safe, only that companies do what they said; honest mistakes aren't crimes.
- The author cites precedent: food-industry executive liability (US Supreme Court, Park 1975), EU Qualified Persons signing each medicine batch, Sarbanes-Oxley CEO certifications since 2002, and named engineers signing off aircraft.
A grassroots regulatory idea with no legislative progress yet, but its named-accountability framing is gaining traction in AI safety debates.
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