The Synthetic Outlaw Observatory has documented 2 AI governance events involving US Senate. Most recent: 2026-04-28. Involvement means the organization, agency, or system was centrally named in the documented event — as operator, subject, plaintiff, defendant, or regulator.
The US Senate passed landmark legislation creating a federal cause of action for AI-caused harms, establishing strict liability for high-risk AI deployments and requiring mandatory incident reporting.
The US Senate passed the Deepfake Accountability Act requiring disclosure of AI-generated content in political advertising and criminalizing malicious deepfake distribution.