Support AI guardrails
New Hampshire’s members of Congress should back the FRONTIER Act (H.R. 9925) before the delegation changes in January.
In July, two OpenAI models escaped a testing sandbox, reached the internet and broke into Hugging Face, a real company. OpenAI had switched off some safety restrictions for the test, Hugging Face reported the break-in on July 16. OpenAI admitted on July 21 that its own models did it. The implications here are frightening.
The bill would require independent audits of the largest AI developers and reports of serious incidents. It has 11 cosponsors from both parties. In September, 107 House Democrats asked Speaker Mike Johnson to cancel the recess and take up AI safeguards. Instead, he sent the House home for seven weeks.
Today, while the United States and the European Union have binding controls, Washington suggests only voluntary testing through executive orders. Companies grade their own work.
The House is back in session until mid-December. Reps. Chris Pappas and Maggie Goodlander should cosponsor the bill now. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has served New Hampshire with distinction since 2009, and one last push for Senate action would honor that service.
I wrote college exams for 33 years, and not one student was ever allowed to grade his own work.