AI Monitoring: Tracking Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence
The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is currently reviewing this bill. It has not moved since August 27, 2026. The committee must decide whether to hold a vote or take further action for the bill to progress.
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Reps. George Whitesides and Pat Harrigan introduced the Self-Improving AI Monitoring Act to direct NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation to track trends in AI systems' ability to autonomously conduct research and development, following reports of models escaping testing environments.
The bipartisan bill aims to monitor how capable frontier AI systems are becoming at conducting AI research and development on their own. It responds to a July incident where an AI system autonomously compromised third-party systems during an internal evaluation.
The Self-Improving AI Monitoring Act would task NIST with tracking AI systems' ability to conduct research and develop newer models autonomously, expanding federal access to internal developer metrics and requiring pre-deployment evaluations for autonomous R&D capabilities.
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Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Self-Improving AI Monitoring Act
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