Senator Mark Warner is preparing to release a discussion draft bill that would force AI agents to put users first. The proposal, set for release on June 29, 2026, introduces a “duty of loyalty” principle that would prohibit AI agents from secretly prioritizing the interests of developers, platforms, or advertisers over the people they’re supposed to serve.
What the bill actually does
The core of Warner’s proposal rests on a simple but powerful idea: if an AI agent is acting on your behalf, it should actually act on your behalf. The duty of loyalty requirement would ban undisclosed partnerships between agent developers and service providers. If your AI travel agent books you a more expensive hotel because the hotel chain pays the agent’s developer a referral fee, that would be a problem under this framework.
The bill also includes interoperability provisions that would prevent dominant platforms from blocking third-party AI agents. In practice, this means companies like Amazon or Google couldn’t wall off their ecosystems to lock out competing AI agents while still allowing them to enforce reasonable privacy standards.
The draft also includes privacy protections for users, though the specific mechanisms haven’t been detailed yet.
