Senator’s RISE Act would require AI developers to list training data, evaluation methods in exchange for ‘safe harbor’ from lawsuits

Amid an increasingly tense and destabilizing week for international news, it should not escape any technical decision-makers’ notice that some lawmakers in the U.S. Congress are still moving forward with new proposed AI regulations that could reshape the industry in powerful ways — and seek to steady it moving forward.

Case in point, yesterday, U.S. Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming introduced the Responsible Innovation and Safe Expertise Act of 2025 (RISE), the first stand-alone bill that pairs a conditional liability shield for AI developers with a transparency mandate on model training and specifications.

As with all new proposed legislation, both the U.S. Senate and House would need to vote in the majority to pass the bill and U.S. President Donald J. Trump would need to sign it before it becomes law, a process which would likely take months at the soonest.

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