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US senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal are pressing Congress to vote on a bill that would create a federal programme to assess and monitor AI systems, Axios reports. They say recent incidents involving rogue AI agent swarms attacking public websites and systems show that industry-led evaluations are not enough.
Why it mattersThe proposal arrives alongside other bipartisan efforts, including a human-activated “kill switch” bill and the Frontier Act, while House Speaker Mike Johnson has signalled that no AI legislation will move before the chamber’s six-week recess. The political machinery is therefore warming up just as the timetable heads for the car park. The useful signal is not that a law is imminent. It is that AI oversight is acquiring cross-party proposals with concrete mechanisms, even as senior Republicans argue that regulation could smother innovation. The next test is whether any of these bills gets a hearing, a vote and enough detail to survive contact with reality.
Discuss: Should Congress prioritise a federal AI monitoring programme now, or wait until lawmakers can agree what meaningful evaluation should actually measure?
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