AI Guardrails Act of 2026

This bill would bar the Department of Defense from using artificial intelligence to launch or detonate a nuclear weapon. It would also bar the Department from using AI to monitor, track, profile, or target people or groups in the United States without an individualized legal basis, or solely to target activities protected by the First Amendment. It would bar the use of lethal force by autonomous weapon systems without appropriate human judgment and supervision. The Secretary of Defense could waive the autonomous weapons limit for up to one year at a time by certifying to Congress that national security requires it and that the system's error rate does not exceed that of trained human operators, with notice to Congress within 5 days.

Full text and official record on Congress.gov

Sponsors

• Elissa Slotkin Democrat sponsor
• 0 cosponsors