Techné AI
When AI makes the decision, someone still answers for it.
Techné AI equips boards, general counsel, and HR leaders to answer well — defensible assessments, board-ready posture memos, and reference libraries verified against primary sources as five regimes move in five directions.
Or start with the free four-minute AI Hiring Exposure Snapshot — no account required.
The clock · late July 2026
Illinois HB 3773: in force since January 1. Colorado: the 2024 act's risk-program regime was repealed before it ever applied — the replacement, SB 26-189, starts disclosure duties January 1, 2027. Texas TRAIGA: in force, enforcement reserved to the Attorney General. California: FEHA automated-decision rules, in force since October 2025. EU AI Act: the Digital Omnibus is signed and awaits Official Journal publication; employment high-risk duties defer to December 2, 2027, and the August 2 transparency duties stand. And in Washington, the Justice Department's AI Litigation Task Force has taken its first state AI law to court — Colorado's.
Churn is the operating condition. A maintained record is how an employer survives it.
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.
Five regimes are now live for any US employer of meaningful size that deploys AI in decisions about people — Illinois the sharpest of them. Select one to read it.
Illinois HB 3773 took effect on January 1, 2026. Its employment provisions impose strict liability — intent is not a defense — and its bar on using ZIP codes as a proxy for protected classes closes a familiar workaround. The Department of Human Rights published proposed implementing rules on May 15, 2026 and withdrew them on June 2, 2026; the rulemaking is postponed, and the statute continues to apply.
Open the Illinois AI Legislative EcosystemThe WOPR Act (HB 1806, Public Act 104-0054) has been in force since August 1, 2025. It limits AI in therapeutic and behavioral-health workflows, requires a licensed professional to oversee AI-assisted clinical decisions, and forbids advertising an AI product as therapy where no licensed professional stands in the loop. Penalties run to $10,000 a 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; the narrower replacement — a disclosure regime for automated decisions — arrives January 1, 2027.
Read about the Multi-Jurisdictional ReviewThe EU AI Act's high-risk obligations for employment and worker-management systems move to December 2, 2027 under the Digital Omnibus — finally adopted, signed July 8, 2026, and awaiting Official Journal publication. The transparency duties still bite on August 2, 2026. And the deferral changes the calendar, not the substance: the duties of Articles 9 through 17 — risk management, data governance, technical documentation, human oversight, accuracy and robustness, quality management — stand either way.
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
A maintained research library for the HR, talent, and people leaders who answer for AI in employment decisions: briefings, playbooks, templates, trackers, and instruments, kept current as US state and EU law moves.
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.