Washington—Congress is grappling with renewed warnings about artificial intelligence but remains unlikely to pass major legislation before Election Day. After high-profile AI researchers quit over catastrophic-risk concerns and Anthropic urged the industry to “slow the pace,” lawmakers floated competing proposals—from the bipartisan Frontier Act to an “AI Kill Switch” and a bid to ban uncontrollable superintelligence and stand up a new federal agency. House leaders plan to consider a narrower bill on shielding consumers from data-center energy costs, while Speaker Mike Johnson signaled caution and deference to executive-branch testing regimes, citing fears of hobbling U.S. innovation against China. In the Senate, investigations and revived bipartisan frameworks aim to bolster transparency and risk assessments, but time is short and consensus remains elusive ahead of the campaign stretch.
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