Techné AI
When AI makes the decision, someone still answers for it.
Practical research and working documents for the people responsible for AI at work. TalentSight helps HR teams build their Illinois hiring record. BoardSight helps directors and the officers who support them prepare AI oversight materials.
Or start with the free four-minute AI Hiring Exposure Snapshot — no account required.
Source update · September 4, 2026
Illinois: HB 3773 remains in force; IDHR’s proposed notice rules were formally withdrawn in the June 26 Register. Colorado: SB 26-189 replaces the earlier framework, with principal duties scheduled for January 1, 2027. EU: the enacted AI Omnibus changes both timing and substance. Read the source notes and scope of this update →
Use each document’s stated date and jurisdiction when preparing your next decision.
Khullani M.
Abdullahi, JD
Founder & Principal Advisor
I built Techné AI as an independent practice where AI governance meets fiduciary duty and regulatory exposure. I wrote the AI Governance & D&O Liability briefing that now circulates among directors, officers, their broker partners, and the underwriters who serve them. I testified before the Illinois Senate's Executive Subcommittee on AI and Social Media; one recommendation from that testimony became an AI-risk impact study bill. And I host AI in Chicago — the public interview record of this practice — where I talk with the researchers, founders, and policymakers shaping the field.
The regulatory map.
Which rules reach an organization depends on where people work, how AI is used, and which decisions it influences. Select a jurisdiction to explore.
Illinois HB 3773 took effect January 1, 2026. Its employment provisions prohibit discriminatory effects from covered AI use and ZIP codes as proxies for protected classes, and require notice. IDHR proposed implementing rules on May 15; formal withdrawal was published June 26, 2026. Proposed procedural details are not adopted requirements. The statute continues to apply.
Open the Illinois AI Legislative EcosystemThe WOPR Act (Public Act 104-0054) has applied since August 1, 2025. It restricts AI in therapy, including independent therapeutic decisions and certain direct client interactions. Defined administrative and supplementary support uses have separate conditions; professional oversight alone does not authorize every use. Penalties may reach $10,000 per violation.
Read about the WOPR Act Review engagementCalifornia reaches further still. Its FEHA automated-decision rules have applied to employment decisions since October 1, 2025, and its CCPA ADMT regulations require full compliance for significant decisions — hiring among them — by January 1, 2027. New York City's Local Law 144 has required bias audits of hiring tools since 2023. Colorado repealed and rewrote its 2024 AI Act in May 2026 before it ever took effect. SB 26-189 includes disclosure, recordkeeping, developer documentation and consumer review provisions; principal duties are scheduled for January 1, 2027.
Read about the Multi-Jurisdictional ReviewThe EU AI Act’s covered Annex III high-risk duties move to December 2, 2027 under Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, published July 24 and in force July 27. The amendments change substance as well as dates. Article 50 generally applies from August 2, 2026, with a specific December 2 transition for Article 50(2) covering certain pre-existing content-generation systems.
Read about the Multi-Jurisdictional ReviewRun against each statute separately, these become five compliance programs. Run together, they become one: a single control catalog that answers the overlapping obligations at once, and a documentation set that reads coherently to the functions that consume it — legal, compliance, privacy, risk — and to the counterparties they answer to. The unified posture is the more defensible one.
Read about the Multi-Jurisdictional ReviewThe record answers. The libraries keep it current.
The deliverable in every engagement is the same: documentation your organization can produce when asked — by a regulator, a plaintiff, an underwriter, or your own board. The libraries exist so that record never goes stale.
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BoardSight Intelligence
For the boards who answer for it · $2,499 / $5,999 · by request
A maintained, private reference library for directors and the officers who support board-level AI oversight — briefings, playbooks, templates, and trackers, every document dated and revised when the landscape moves.
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TalentSight Intelligence
For the people who run AI in employment · $999 / $2,499 · Subscribe
An Illinois-focused reference library for HR teams: AI inventory, vendor questionnaire, notice materials, posture memo and implementation guidance. Inspect the published contents and formats before subscribing.
Both libraries carry the charter rate lock: subscribe by September 30, 2026 and renew at your original rate for as long as you stay subscribed.
The published record.
Formal testimony, published briefings, and tools practitioners across Illinois consult.
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AI Hiring Exposure Snapshot
Run the snapshot
A free four-minute instrument for employers using AI in hiring: where AI touches your covered employment decisions, and how developed your documented posture is. Illinois edition, covering HB 3773. On-screen summary immediately; the full written snapshot delivered by work email.
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Illinois AI Legislative Ecosystem
Open the tracker
A live tracker of every AI-related bill, enacted statute, and regulatory move shaping Illinois AI policy. Maintained by Techné AI; consulted by general counsel, compliance officers, and policy researchers.
Now available as versioned, structured data for compliance platforms and AI research tools. Licensing inquiries →
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AI Governance & D&O Liability
Request the briefing
A briefing for directors, officers, and the advisors who serve them on where AI deployment meets fiduciary duty and D&O liability. In circulation among practitioners and underwriters.
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Senate testimony
Read the testimony
Written testimony to the Illinois Senate's Executive Subcommittee on AI and Social Media on consolidating the state's frontier-AI safety bills. One recommendation from it became an AI-risk impact study bill.
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AI Hiring Vendor Questionnaire
Explore the library
A twelve-question diligence template aligned to HB 3773 and the IDHR's withdrawn proposed notice framework, built for HR teams vetting every AI tool in the hiring and performance stack. Included with TalentSight Intelligence.
The practice.
Independent. National in scope.
Techné AI is an independent advisory practice. It does not sell software, integrate AI systems, place insurance, or take commissions. It stands apart from the technology vendors, the audit firms, and the law firms — and that separation is what lets its review work be relied on by internal counsel, by compliance and risk, and by the counterparties they answer to.
Everything the firm publishes rests on published methodology: the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO/IEC 42001, the SaferAI Frontier AI Risk Management Framework, and the proportionality and tiered-assurance literature now taking shape in the field. The work delivers a documented compliance posture — dated, sourced, and maintained — in documents and instruments that name their methods and their sources.
Where a client requires formal third-party attestation, Techné AI makes referrals to licensed CPA firms and accredited certification bodies. The firm is itself implementing an ISO/IEC 42001 AI management system, with certification targeted for 2026–2027.
The practice is anchored in Illinois, where its authority was built — the legislative tracker, the Senate testimony, the AI Governance & D&O Liability briefing in circulation — and it follows clients into the jurisdictions their operations require: California, New York, Colorado, and the European Union.
- How Techné AI works
- Full disclosure of independence
- NIST AI RMF
- ISO/IEC 42001
- SaferAI Frontier Framework
- Illinois AI Legislative Ecosystem ↗
Where to start.
Three self-serve paths. The free four-minute AI Hiring Exposure Snapshot gives you a structured read on where your organization stands — no account required. TalentSight Intelligence is the maintained research library that closes the gaps the Snapshot surfaces — problem-first briefings, templates, trackers, and instruments, kept current as the law moves. And The Techné Institute is the firm’s periodical on AI, work, and the law — read it to stay current while you decide.