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Senators Schiff and Sanders call for mandatory AI guardrails after bank agent reports
Severity 1ActiveconfirmedGovernmentFinanceAI-related

Reacting to reports of AI agents in bank accounts, Sen. Adam Schiff posted that the time to pass mandatory industry-wide AI guardrails is now and warned rogue agents also threaten utilities and health systems; Sen. Bernie Sanders said AI agents cannot be allowed to act in bank accounts without authorization and called to pause AI. Schiff has also floated an FDA-style AI regulator.

What to do: No legislation passed yet.

AI angle: Direct response to the Axios bank agent report.

· 14 days ago · US policy debate · Benzinga
SourcesBenzingaSen. Schiff press release (Oct 9)
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