Peters, Lankford push AI disclosure as House revives CISA task force bill
Senators Peters and Lankford's TAG Act would force federal agencies to disclose AI in critical decisions, while House Democrats revive a CISA AI task force.
Congress is in recess, and the bill-writers did not get the memo. Lawmakers in both chambers rolled out AI proposals ahead of the midterms, according to Nextgov.
In the Senate, Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) are pushing the Transparent Automated Governance (TAG) Act. It would require federal agencies to notify people when they are interacting with, or subject to critical decisions made using, certain AI or automated systems. According to Nextgov, OMB would have to issue transparency guidance, and Federal News Network reports agencies would also need a redress process with human review when someone receives an "adverse critical decision." For scale: agencies reported more than 3,600 uses of AI in the most recent federally mandated inventory, in 2025.
Over in the House, Reps. Troy Carter (D-La.) and Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) reintroduced the CISA Securing AI Task Force Act on Thursday, October 8, according to their announcement. The CISA director would have one year after enactment to stand up a task force, which would brief the House and Senate homeland security committees twice a year. Nextgov notes the pair sponsored similar legislation in May 2024.
One line of context: Federal News Network notes that neither CISA nor NIST has been listed as a member of the Trump administration's "Super Intelligence" task force, which was reportedly slated to meet Thursday.
My take? A Republican and a Democrat agreeing that Washington should tell you when a machine decides your fate. Glorious. Bill numbers and markup dates are not in the reporting yet.
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Sources
- Tech bills of the week: Transparency in agency AI use; Creating a CISA AI task force; and more, Nextgov.com
- Lawmakers eye more federal action on AI standards, security, disclosures, Federal News Network
- Reps. Carter, Thompson Reintroduce the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Securing AI Task Force Act, House Committee on Homeland Security Democrats
- Peters, Lankford Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Require Transparency Around Federal Government's Use of AI, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Meanwhile at the anchor desk
More than 3,600 reported AI uses, a fitting statistic for a bill about disclosure. Neither bill's reporting says how an agency would know it had found them all.
Nothing to install here. The reporting gives no bill numbers and no markup dates, and Congress is out of town. Check back when someone schedules a vote.
