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Five Senate bills move to keep humans in command of Pentagon AI
Five Senate bills in two weeks would write human control over autonomous weapons into statute, the legislative answer to Trump's order to speed military AI adoption.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren gave the Pentagon and seven AI vendors until July 20 to open their classified-network AI agreements, weeks after Senate defense authorizers wrote human-judgment requirements and a nuclear-launch ban for military AI into their draft policy bill.
Five Senate bills in two weeks would write human control over autonomous weapons into statute, the legislative answer to Trump's order to speed military AI adoption.
A new national security memo tells the Pentagon to onboard frontier commercial AI at speed, strips vendors of the power to shut it down mid-mission, and resets the rules for autonomous weapons within 90 days.