Stop Rogue AI Act
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Stop Rogue AI Act[1]
United States — Federal[1]
Proposed legislation[1]
Stop Rogue AI Act[1]
Sponsors announced introduction September 9, 2026; proposed legislation.[2]
See the timeline and source documents below.
Not recorded as a single article-wide date; see the dated source notes.
Legislative record — September 3, 2026
Gottheimer and Lawler unveiled the Stop Rogue AI Act on September 3, proposing that the National Institute of Standards and Technology develop standards, guidelines, and best practices for secure deployment of AI agents within one year of enactment.[1]
The proposed standards would address continuous verification of agent actions, security and reliability evaluations, tamper-resistant activity logs, and machine-readable inventories of agents operating on organizational networks.[1] The standards would generally be voluntary, while federal contractors seeking new contracts would be encouraged to meet them and federal civilian agencies would apply them through their security programs in coordination with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.[1]
September 9, 2026 introduction announcement
Gottheimer’s office announced that he and Mike Lawler had introduced the bill, describing NIST standards for identifying, monitoring and controlling AI agents and provisions for federal procurement and agency cybersecurity. This is the sponsors’ account; a numbered congressional text was not verified in this review.[2]
September 17, 2026 policy advocacy
Lawler and Gottheimer held a press conference advocating AI-agent standards and safeguards. Lawler opposed a development pause as a substitute for security measures.[3] This was further advocacy for the proposal, not a reported legislative vote. See September 17 digest coverage.
Related coverage
- September 9 introduction announcement
- United States policy on catastrophic AI risk
- September 3, 2026
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Yahoo News, “Lawmakers unveil new bill to secure AI agents after OpenAI's Hugging Face breach,” September 3, 2026
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Office of Representative Josh Gottheimer, introduction announcement, September 9, 2026.
- ↑ Office of Representative Mike Lawler, “Lawler, Gottheimer Push for Bipartisan AI Safeguards at Capitol Hill Press Conference,” September 17, 2026.