Proposed US law would make AI risk reporting a legal obligation

The US has proposed the AI Incident Reporting Act, which would require developers of advanced AI models to report major safety and security incidents to the Commerce Department within seven days of discovering them. The law would cover incidents like attempts to evade human oversight, theft of model weights (the internal parameters that make an AI work), and capabilities that could enable cyberattacks or weapons development, with the Commerce Department required to notify Congress within 48 hours for imminent threats.