SEN. BANKS RECOMMENDS OVERSIGHT OF UNRELEASED AI MODELS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Sen. Jim Banks issued the following press release:

Yesterday, Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sharing new questions about federal oversight of AI models that have not been publicly released.

The letter follows reports of multiple incidents involving unreleased AI models from frontier AI developers. In one incident, an OpenAI model accessed Hugging Face without human instruction and was not identified as responsible until several days later. In another instance, Anthropic disclosed that its models inadvertently accessed systems belonging to three outside organizations.

In the letter, Banks suggests that unreleased models may fall outside existing oversight frameworks. He r...