The letter, organized by the non-profits Americans for Responsible Innovation and The Alliance for Secure AI, refers to a measure included in a discussion draft of a national framework on AI being floated by Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) and Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) in the House.

Brad Carson: National standards are needed, but not at the expense of the states that are actually acting.

“They have exploded the Overton window,” said Brad Carson, a former Democratic congressman and president of Americans for Responsible Innovation, a nonprofit backed by a faction of tech billionaires that pushes for AI rules. Like others in that camp, Carson argued that the White House’s new, voluntary approach to vetting — a 30-day process through which top AI firms agree to share advanced models with the government in order to identify and address cybersecurity risks — gives momentum to the so-called AI safety movement.

Brad Carson was the Army's General Counsel, served two terms in Congress and was Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. He now heads Americans for Responsible Innovation, the AI-policy advocacy group he co-founded. Keith Duggar spends roughly eighty minutes pushing back.

ARI President Brad Carson discusses President Trump's recent visit to China for trade negotiations and the threat that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may pressure the president to commit to additional sales of advanced AI chips.

A majority of Republican voters support policies requiring AI models to undergo independent security testing, according to a new poll released Thursday. The survey, shared first with The Hill from Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI), found that 71 percent prefer a mandatory testing process, compared with 17 percent who said AI companies should voluntarily test their models for risks.

Faith leaders are calling on lawmakers to pass binding legal safeguards to ensure that humans, not machines, control AI-enabled weapons. Why it matters: A cross-faith coalition is stepping into the debate over how AI will reshape warfare as Congress considers guardrails for military AI.

Brad Carson is president of Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI) and a former congressman representing Oklahoma.

Morgan Plummer is Vice President of Policy at Americans for Responsible Innovation. He previously served as a Professor of Practice at the U.S. Air Force Academy and as Managing Director of the Department of Defense’s National Security Innovation Network.

Former Oklahoma Congressman and now president of Americans for Responsible Innovation Brad Carson joins the Chuck Toddcast for a wide-ranging conversation about why AI may be the most consequential policy issue nobody in Washington is seriously addressing.

Senators on both sides of the aisle criticized liability protections for social media platforms at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday, but largely stopped short of supporting a full repeal as sought by some lawmakers.

Over two dozen former defense and intelligence officials, tech policy leaders, and academics have signed on to a letter addressed to members of Congress over the Pentagon’s recent decision to list Anthropic as a supply chain risk.