Thirty-five lawmakers urge White House action on AI risks
Thirty-five members of Congress sent a May 13, 2026 letter to National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross urging federal action on frontier AI risks. The correspondence highlights cyber threats from general-purpose models that can discover and exploit software vulnerabilities at scale. It also addresses AI-enabled advances in chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear research and development following recent Mythos developments.
#167Emad@EMOSTAQUERecursive self-improvement is very reasonably the greatest near-term threat to democracy & peace out there
Nathan Calvin@_NathanCalvinNew letter from 35 (!) members of Congress to the White House urging action post-Mythos. Most of the letter is about cyber risk, but also discusses importance of non-cyber threats as well. "As general-purpose models improve, they may acquire new capabilities in cyber, chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN)-relevant research, and AI research and development (R&D) itself before federal agencies and infrastructure owners have time to adjust. Regardless of how quickly one expects AI capabilities to advance, when important capabilities appear, federal agencies must be able to recognize them and respond quickly."
#1488Samuel Hammond 🦉@HAMANDCHEESEStrong letter to ODNC w 35 members of Congress calling for a federal process on cyber vuln disclosure
This caught my eye. The USG *should* be monitoring for sudden jumps in AI capabilities per se, not just cyber
A Situational Awareness Room, if you will. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28121276-ai-discovered-vulnerability-coordination-letter/
