# The AI Liability Rules Both Companies Are Lobbying for May Not Apply to Them

- slug: the-ai-liability-rules-both-companies-are-lobbying-for-may-not-apply-to-them
- date: 2026-04-18
- category: Artificial Intelligence

Illinois bills would shield AI labs from catastrophe lawsuits — but under the statutory threshold (>10^26 FLOPs), GPT-4 falls short by a factor of five. Both companies are pushing rules that may not cover the models they sell.

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