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Senator Adam Schiff introduced the HALO Act on June 8. It would require a human commander to make the final call on any lethal decision involving autonomous weapons. The bill also restricts AI surveillance of Americans exercising constitutional rights, bars removing humans from nuclear launch decisions, and limits the Pentagon buying personal data on US citizens.
Schiff is not alone. Senators Gillibrand and Slotkin are pushing similar guardrails as amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act. The cluster matters more than any single bill. The legislative branch is moving from principles to statute on military AI use.
The shift follows the public dispute earlier this year between the Pentagon and Anthropic over the terms of use for Claude. Vendor policy is becoming federal policy. Whatever the Pentagon and AI labs negotiate in private is now the subject of congressional drafts.
A human at the top of the chain is the test the bill is built around. The question is whether the test is a guardrail or a signature.
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