Rep. Whitesides Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Reduce the Risk of Superintelligent AI by Monitoring Self-Improving AI Systems

This press release from Representative George Whitesides (D-CA) was published on 2026-08-29 and titled "Rep. Whitesides Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Reduce the Risk of Superintelligent AI by Monitoring Self-Improving AI Sys".

Rep. Whitesides Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Reduce the Risk of Superintelligent AI by Monitoring Self-Improving AI Systems

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Reps. George Whitesides (D-CA) and Pat Harrigan (R-NC) introduced the Self-Improving AI Monitoring Act, bipartisan legislation to reduce the risk of superintelligent AI by monitoring how capable frontier AI systems are becoming at conducting AI research and development on their own. The largest AI labs are increasingly using their own AI systems to run experiments, write code, [ ]