Bill sets up AI safety checks and shares secret threat data.
S. 5061 — Secure A.I. Development Act of 2026 · Filed by Mark Warner (D-VA) · Introduced Jul 21, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill creates an AI Risk Board. It checks if new AI systems are safe before companies release them. Companies must show their biggest AI models to the National Security Agency. This must happen 21 days before the public can use them. The bill sets up a public list to track AI safety problems. It also lets the government share secret threat data with AI companies about foreign attacks.
Who it affects
People get a public list to see AI safety problems. AI companies get secret threat data from the government. They also get protection from lawsuits if they share data with the government.
One thing to notice
The bill lets companies see secret government threat data. But the public cannot see what secrets were shared. Companies can stop their own safety problems from being posted in the public list if they ask.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jul 21, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jul 21, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- AI Risk Board — A group that decides which AI systems might cause serious harm.
- National Security Agency — A U.S. government agency that handles secret defense and spy work.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (45,487 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
As of — page rendered 2026-09-17.
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