Congress should do something: the case for (fixing) the Great American AI Act
Lawfare
3mo · 9 min
An assessment of the bipartisan discussion draft aimed at federal frontier-model regulation — and what would need to change for it to actually pass.
Since the April announcement of Anthropic’s Mythos model and its unprecedented cyber capabilities, there has been a remarkable shift in the artificial intelligence (AI) policy discourse. This has been most noticeable, and most noticed, in the statements and actions of prominent Trump administration officials. After months of dismissing concerns about national security risks from AI and engaging with the issue primarily by attempting to preempt state AI safety laws, the White House recently issued an executive order that called for the establishment of a voluntary predeployment program headed by the National Security Agency to evaluate offensive cyber capabilities of frontier models. This came amid statements from senior administration officials about “striking a … balance between…
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