Exclusive: Bipartisan AI safety bill gains momentum on the Hill
Sanders wants to ban superintelligence and Khanna is calling for certification, liability penalties and a new federal agency as lawmakers race to define guardrails.
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What's next for the AI safety debate
A week of extraordinary warnings about AI is shifting the fight in Washington from whether to regulate to how far policymakers are willing to go.Why it matters: Washington and industry's failure to put basic guardrails around AI came into plain sight this week, spurring fresh momentum for regulatory action. Lawmakers were quick to re-up their AI bills following a stark warning that went viral from a former Anthropic researcher who said he quit t…
Perfectly Timed AI Panic Resurrects 'Bipartisan AI Safety Bill'
Perfectly Timed AI Panic Resurrects 'Bipartisan AI Safety Bill' A stalled bipartisan artificial intelligence safety bill has suddenly found new life on Capitol Hill - propelled by a combination of dire warnings from inside the industry's leading labs and a brewing grassroots revolt threatening Republicans in key midterm states. According to a new report from Semafor, momentum is building for a Senate regulatory framework just as a conservative-l…
The internal warnings of OpenAI and Anthropic about the risks of superintelligence coincided with a political offensive that could reactivate a bipartisan security project for AI in the Senate. The initiative, whose final text is not yet public, could give new powers to the Department of Commerce and the Department of Homeland Security, with possible effects on Wall Street's betting on data centers, semiconductors and energy.
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