Congress must pass a new federal law on AI governance

An opinion piece from Brookings argues for a new US federal law on AI governance centred on a licensing and auditing regime for frontier AI models. This emerging consensus, already visible in state-level legislation and a bipartisan federal bill draft, would mandate third-party audits against standards set by an agency like NIST, focusing on material risks such as cybersecurity, bioweapons, and loss of control.

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