Senator Elissa Slotkin introduced legislation to codify into law that AI cannot autonomously decide to kill a target, cannot be used for mass surveillance of Americans, and cannot launch nuclear weapons — directly responding to the Pentagon-Anthropic conflict.

The US Senate Sergeant at Arms approved the use of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot for official Senate business, marking a significant step in AI adoption by the US legislative branch.