House draft bill would let AI labs off the hook if agent developers were careless
serendip-ml · reddit · 2026-10-09
Rep. Lori Trahan released a draft bill on AI harm: if an AI hurts someone, the company that trained the model pays — unless whoever built the agent on top of it was careless.
- The bill doesn't define what "careless" means for agents
- No accredited standard exists to prove agent safety; OWASP's Agentic Top 10 and NIST frameworks are voluntary
- Raises the question of how anyone could actually prove an agent is safe under this regime
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