Self-Improving AI Monitoring Act

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Advanced AI companies would share how their systems are built if they partner with NIST for testing

This bill would make sure that companies making very advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems share more information with the government. It would require these companies to tell the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) how much AI they used to build new AI. This applies when they work together for tests. This helps NIST keep track of how AI is improving and if it's starting to build itself.

What Would Change

Today, NIST lacks explicit authority to track trends in AI's self-development capabilities. There are also no specific rules for pre-release testing agreements with advanced AI developers. After this bill, NIST would be able to assess these AI trends. Advanced AI developers would also need to disclose how much AI was used to build new AI systems if they enter into pre-release evaluation agreements with NIST.

Key Provisions

Blocks the Director of NIST from making pre-release testing agreements with advanced AI developers unless new disclosure and evaluation rules are met.
If companies developing very advanced AI systems partner with NIST for testing, they would need to share details about how they used AI to build those new systems.
Requires these companies to disclose how much AI worked without human review when developing new AI systems.
NIST's pre-release evaluations of advanced AI systems would need to check if the AI can help create or develop other AI systems on its own.
Lets the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) track trends in how AI systems are developing, especially their ability to build other AI.

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HR 10180 · 119th Congress · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 8/10

Self-Improving AI Monitoring Act

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