Representative Nathaniel Moran, a Texas Republican, introduced legislation on June 25 that would force AI companies to tell the federal government when their models do something dangerous. The bill, called the AI Incident Reporting Act, gives developers a seven-day window to report critical safety incidents to the US Commerce Department.
What the bill actually requires
When an AI company discovers a significant security breach or safety incident, it has seven days to notify the Commerce Department. For serious cases, Commerce then has 48 hours to loop in Congress.
The types of incidents that trigger mandatory reporting are specific. They include AI models that evade oversight mechanisms, unauthorized access to model weights (the core parameters that define how an AI system behaves), and situations where models demonstrate capabilities related to chemical, biological, or nuclear threats.
Why this bill exists right now
