{"article":{"slug":"senate-ai-systems-transparency-act","kind":"rule","source":{"title":"Senators Coons, Britt, Schatz, and Lankford introduce bipartisan AI safety and transparency legislation","url":"https://www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senators-coons-britt-schatz-and-lankford-introduce-bipartisan-ai-safety-and-transparency-legislation","date":"2026-09-24"},"headline":"Four senators want AI labs to publish model cards, with the FTC enforcing","whatChanged":"On September 24, Senators Chris Coons, Katie Britt, Brian Schatz, and James Lankford introduced the AI Systems Transparency Act. Covered AI companies, defined by size criteria in the bill, would publish model cards and describe their safeguards for child safety, mental health, privacy, cybersecurity, disaster risk, and loss of control, updated with each new model. The FTC would enforce it for open and closed models alike. The same day, attorneys general from 23 states and D.C. asked Congress for federal AI safety rules.","whyItMatters":"The bill regulates the companies that build models, and it has only been introduced, with midterms in November. For buyers, it points at a practical gap. Model cards and safeguard descriptions are the documents a company needs when it decides whether to trust a model with its data, and today they are voluntary and uneven across providers. If the bill moves, vendors would have to publish them. Until then, buyers have to ask.","issuer":"U.S. Senate","glance":"Four senators introduced the AI Systems Transparency Act on September 24; the FTC would enforce new model disclosure rules.","status":"proposed","action":"Ask each AI vendor you use for its current model card and data terms, and file them with the approval.","companyLabel":"Public edition"},"issue":{"id":"2026-09-28","publishedLabel":"Week of September 28, 2026","isLatest":false},"position":{"index":5,"total":6},"next":{"slug":"reported-frontier-ai-standards-body","headline":"Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic reportedly plan their own industry testing body"},"session":null}