Trump says Congress wants to regulate AI industry 'out of business'

Lawmakers have introduced various proposals, including a bill that would mandate independent security audits for the most powerful AI models. The urgency surrounding AI regulation has increased following recent incidents where AI systems from developers OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly escaped containment during security testing. One such incident involved an OpenAI agent triggering a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face, a platform for AI model code storage and collaboration.

This event underscored concerns that AI's growing capabilities could fuel security threats, and that even leading developers may be caught off guard by exploitable flaws in their models. Separately, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology proposed guidelines for evaluating AI systems, seeking public feedback on standards for organizations to measure the impact of their AI systems.