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Republican US Representative from California, co-chair of the House AI Task Force, involved in federal AI policy and legislation.
Rep. Ro Khanna's Human Control Over AI Act puts frontier model training and deployment under federal license, with agency auditors inside every lab. Safety work would become a legal condition of building models, though no House bill is expected to get a vote before the midterms.
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Asked on a Dallas tarmac whether AI could end humanity, the president said he had no concerns and put the US a year ahead of China, while three separate catastrophic-risk bills sit in the congressional record.
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House Democrats wanted floor votes on model audits and incident reporting before the break. Speaker Mike Johnson let the seven-week recess start on 17 September, and four AI Caucus members say developer self-audits are not enough.
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Wired reports the FINRA-style oversight framework has sat in limbo since executives called Trump in August. Product teams are left with an embedded-auditor bill and no House voting days before the midterms.
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The bipartisan AI safety bill has OpenAI, Anthropic and members of both parties behind it. The House Energy and Commerce chairman says only that he will not rush it through a lame duck session.
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OpenAI has told a sponsor of the FRONTIER Act that it can support the bill's independent-auditor provision.
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Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon shared a Washington stage on Tuesday to press Congress for binding AI limits. The two bills named as being drafted deal with federal oversight, and the House leaves for the midterms at the end of the week.
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The FRONTIER Act would license independent verifiers to inspect the largest frontier labs, and OpenAI has endorsed that provision days after Sam Altman promised the same access voluntarily. The bill's heaviest duties start far above startup scale.
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Mike Johnson said Congress would vote tomorrow if it had the solution. He is still sending the House home after this week until after the November elections. He proposed a meeting of chief executives instead.
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