Rep. Josh Gottheimer introduced the AI Cyber Defense Act, legislation that would give critical infrastructure operators free access to AI technology for identifying and fixing security gaps. Gottheime…
President Trump announced plans on Saturday to create an "AI Force," a government oversight group he compared to the Space Force and said would be run by an AI "czar," according to a Truth Social post…
Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Hesperia, chairperson of the House Subcommittee on Research and Technology, said on Sept. 18 that Congress has codified only one of the 85 policy recommendations from the biparti…
Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Hesperia, chairperson of the House Subcommittee on Research and Technology, said on Sept. 18 that only one of the 84 policy recommendations in the House Task Force on Artificial …
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" that he supports congressional hearings on AI but is not keen on additional regulations, favoring an oversight role for Congress instead. The remark…
Geoffrey Hinton, known as the "Godfather of AI," told U.S. lawmakers behind closed doors that Congress has "maybe a year, but not much more than a year" to regulate artificial intelligence before it b…
Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate known as the "Godfather of AI," told lawmakers in a private Capitol Hill briefing this week that Congress has "maybe a year, but not much more than a year" to imple…
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told CNBC that new artificial intelligence products should undergo "objective review" before reaching consumers, warning that "right now we're on the verge of losing …
Utah Sen. John Curtis and Democratic Delaware Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester issued a joint statement calling on congressional leaders to schedule swift public hearings with AI model developers and other s…
Congress has failed to advance artificial intelligence regulation despite two years of proposals from Democrats and Republicans and calls for action from some in Silicon Valley, according to the New Y…
Rep. George Whitesides (D-Calif.) said Monday that the U.S. needs "a safety stand-down" on AI, telling NewsNation's Blake Burman on "The Hill" that he is "setting out a vision for how we need to devel…
Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff accused President Donald Trump of being compromised on artificial intelligence regulation because of his family's financial stake in the sector, pointing to Donald T…
Former President Barack Obama is urging Democrats to treat artificial intelligence oversight as a core political priority, warning that unchecked AI development could deepen inequality and erode publi…
Chinese artificial intelligence companies refused meetings with a U.S. congressional advisory delegation over concerns about potential sanctions, amid rising U.S.-China tensions over AI technology and…
U.S. lawmakers are calling for new rules to govern artificial intelligence after two Anthropic researchers warned that rapidly progressing AI could lead to human extinction. Anthropic researcher Jacob…
U.S. lawmakers called this week for new rules to govern AI after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon went public with concerns that the technology could escape human control, saying he was leaving the AI…
OpenAI announced on Wednesday that it is pushing for mandatory national AI safety requirements and, until the U.S. Congress acts, will continue supporting state AI legislation. In a blog post, the Cha…
Lawmakers and staffers across the U.S. Congress are using artificial intelligence chatbots—including Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude in the House—to write speeches, sort constituent mail, and dra…
The U.S. Congress is demanding that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman provide a detailed explanation of a recent incident involving a HuggingFace-hosted model, pressing for root cause analysis, mitigation steps, …
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman demanding transparency regarding a security incident involving HuggingFace, the AI model hosting platform. The letter reques…