Self-Improving AI Monitoring Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Aug 27, 2026
What it does
The Self-Improving AI Monitoring Act would amend the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to require the NIST Director to assess trends in AI systems’ capabilities, particularly their ability to autonomously facilitate or conduct AI research and development. It would also impose new requirements on memorandums of understanding between NIST and developers of frontier AI systems, mandating disclosure of information about AI utilization in system development and requiring evaluations of autonomous AI research capabilities before pre-deployment evaluations can proceed. These provisions aim to enhance oversight of advanced AI systems that could contribute to scientific…
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