Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is calling on Congress to act swiftly on a federal framework for AI regulation, while President Donald Trump has rebuffed calls for AI development regulations, according to an op…
Sen. Bernie Sanders criticized Congress and President Trump on Tuesday for failing to regulate artificial intelligence, saying "Congress under both Democratic and Republican control has been asleep at…
Senator Bernie Sanders said Congress has been "asleep at the wheel" on artificial intelligence during a speech at the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington on Tuesday, warning that current systems are "the…
Rep. Pete Aguilar (Calif.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said Tuesday that AI companies cannot be trusted to regulate themselves and that Congress must pass industry-wide rules to ensure p…
Congress has not passed any comprehensive AI legislation in the three years since Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman met with senators in September 2023, and lawmakers are unlikely to act befor…
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is locked in negotiations over a bipartisan AI safety bill, Politico reports, as concerns about rapidly advancing artificial intelligence escalate. Thune, a former Co…
An audit of Anthropic's finances alleges the AI safety nonprofit ecosystem around the company operates as a self-amplifying regulatory capture machine funded through Moskovitz's $7 billion in Anthropi…
Congress is weighing AI legislation ahead of the November elections, with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) telling reporters that a meeting with top AI executives and the White House is in the works.…
Former National Security Agency chief AI officer Vinh X. Nguyen argues that voluntary commitments from Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Google DeepMind to let independent third-party evaluators access m…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an X post on Sunday that AI progress should slow to allow safety checks, warning that AI could either escape human control or concentrate power in one person or company. …
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called on House GOP leaders Monday to keep Congress in Washington to consider new limits on AI companies, citing warnings from industry insiders about th…
Congress returned to Capitol Hill this week facing voter pressure to regulate AI after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned the technology could extinguish humankind within a decade, followi…
Digital rights group Fight for the Future issued a statement from director Evan Greer warning that the AI industry cannot be trusted to regulate itself, after the heads of major frontier AI companies …
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), policy chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said in a Politico interview published Sunday that federal oversight of artificial intelligence may be warranted, callin…
President Trump downplayed the need for regulatory guardrails on artificial intelligence in a social media post, saying a "high IQ" president is enough to oversee it, according to NBC News reporting b…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on the Trump administration to brief the Senate on its AI framework for testing the latest models, as lawmakers returned to Washington on Monday with the Ho…
Congress is considering a federal "AI Kill Switch" law that would impose a nationwide legal requirement on AI systems, according to Forbes contributor Lance Eliot. Eliot warns that the mandate could p…
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that Congress should not rush to regulate artificial intelligence, warning that an emergency legislative session would cause the U.S. to "lose the race t…
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that Congress will not lead on AI safety regulation, arguing AI companies should take responsibility for their own products…
House Speaker Mike Johnson called on top artificial intelligence leaders to meet with Congress and the White House to agree on safety legislation, saying during a Sunday appearance on CNN's "State of …