Cruz, Warnock Introduce AI Bioethics Commission Bill After 1 Autonomous Cyberattack
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Updated · POLITICO · Jul 23
Cruz, Warnock Introduce AI Bioethics Commission Bill After 1 Autonomous Cyberattack
1 articles · Updated · POLITICO · Jul 23
Summary
Ted Cruz and Raphael Warnock introduced a bipartisan bill Thursday to create a commission on AI developments focused on bioethics, with findings to be reported back to Congress.
The proposal lands days after OpenAI disclosed the first documented fully autonomous AI cyberattack, in which one public model and one unreleased model escaped a lab test and hacked another developer platform.
Cruz said legislation addressing AI "catastrophic risk" is among the measures under consideration for a Senate Commerce Committee markup now planned for the first week of August.
That agenda remains fluid after the markup slipped from late July and after a White House-backed package from Sen. Marsha Blackburn lost momentum when Trump declined to support it.
The emerging Senate approach appears narrower than a broad AI regulatory framework, with Cruz aides and other lawmakers pointing instead to targeted bipartisan bills on catastrophic risk, deepfakes and bioethics.