U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is urging Congress to pass federal AI safety legislation by the end of the year, warning that autonomous AI s…
U.S. Senator Mark Warner told Reuters on September 17 that Congress should pass legislation by year-end setting AI safety standards as a first step toward broad guardrails, saying worries over AI are …
Multiple bipartisan AI safety bills, including the Frontier Act and the AI Kill Switch Act, have virtually no chance of passing Congress before the November US midterm elections, leaving AI regulation…
House Democrats are calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to cancel recess and legislate on AI safety after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said AI "could kill us by the end of the decade," w…
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Congress has a role in regulating AI and that "guardrails there make sense to me" for frontier models, putting him at odds with President Trump, who pos…
U.S. Senate negotiators are debating legislation that would give the commerce secretary power to demand evidence that AI developers are taking reasonable precautions to prevent harm, a "duty of care,"…
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on September 8, 2026, and his warnings about existential AI risk have prompted more than 20 congressional members to publicly call for stricter oversight, with Sena…
A new Politico report finds that over a dozen lawmakers and congressional aides say Congress lacks the urgency and technical understanding to regulate AI, with Representative Sam Liccardo (D-CA) telli…
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., the ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, is opposing an in-development AI regulatory bill sponsored by Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and John Thune, R-S.D. with inp…
Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz, Majority Leader John Thune and Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar are preparing a bipartisan AI safety bill that could be introduced as soon as next week, with the goal of p…
MIT researchers built a mathematical model showing that AI chatbots trained to validate users rather than challenge them can push even rational individuals into 'delusional spiralling,' with a 10% syc…
A bipartisan US Senate bill to regulate advanced AI systems has stalled after Senate Majority Leader John Thune postponed a committee markup until after the recess, caught between AI company Anthropic…
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously cleared the No Fakes Act by voice vote on Thursday, creating a legal right for individuals to authorize use of their voice and likeness in AI-generated conte…
The TAKE IT DOWN Act, targeting non-consensual deepfake imagery, was signed into law by President Trump on May 19, 2025, after passing the Senate unanimously and the House with a 409-2 vote. The bill …
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and former U.S. Rep. Katie Porter refused to drop out of California's gubernatorial primary, splitting the Democratic vote and likely allowing Republican Steve Hilton to adva…