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UNITED STATES – MAY 11: Chairman Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., right, and Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., attend a Senate Judiciary Committee markup in Hart Building on Thursday, May 11, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Bipartisan Senate bill would establish path for AI harm lawsuits

The legislation would classify AI systems as products and create federal legal grounds to sue developers over harms.
The U.S. Department of Energy building is seen behind a sign marking the location of the agency’s headquarters on March 18, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J.David Ake/Getty Images)

Energy Department would host AI risk program under Senate bill

The bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Risk Evaluation Act would establish a risk evaluation program at DOE to assess safety concerns on advanced AI systems.
WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 07: Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) speaks at a press conference alongside U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) about the Senate Democrats expanded majority for the next 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol Building. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Senators reintroduce bipartisan bill to push for open source software security within federal gov

The bill was previously proposed in response to the Log4j vulnerability that affected millions of IT systems around the world.
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