Collaboration on Adversarial Threats and Security Risks Act

Key Points

• The bill creates a legal exemption so AI companies can share information about security threats, like theft or misuse of their technology, without violating antitrust law.
• It targets risks like foreign adversaries stealing or weaponizing AI, AI being used to build chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons, and AI disrupting critical infrastructure like power grids or hospitals.
• Companies can even agree to delay or limit releasing an AI product over safety concerns, but only after telling the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division about the specific risk and the scope of the planned delay.
• The exemption does not cover price-fixing, splitting up markets, monopolizing, boycotts, or sharing cost information, and the Attorney General can still seek an injunction if a deal actually makes AI security risks worse.
• Any notice a company submits about delaying a product release is kept secret from the public and exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests.