Representatives Gottheimer and Lawler Introduce 'Stop Rogue AI Act' to Establish AI Agent Standards
Representatives Josh Gottheimer and Mike Lawler have introduced the 'Stop Rogue AI Act,' a bipartisan legislative effort aimed at addressing the governance of artificial intelligence agents. The proposed act would mandate the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop comprehensive standards for the discovery, inventorying, verification, and control of AI agents. This includes agents obtained from vendors or operated through external services. The bill translates AI agent governance into established cybersecurity concepts such as continuous inventory, verified identity, access control, runtime monitoring, provenance, tamper-evident logging, and organizational authority to constrain agent activity. While the bill was introduced in the outgoing Congress, it would require reintroduction in the new legislative session if not enacted.
