Bipartisan push for AI guardrails faces uphill battle in Congress

AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic warning that leading AI companies are gambling with lives, prompting unusual bipartisan pressure on Congress to act on AI guardrails before the midterms. Coxon's viral warning drew reactions from both conservative figures like Representative Anna Paulina Luna and progressives including Senator Bernie Sanders, who joined with Steve Bannon at the Pro-Human Assembly to push for independent oversight and a slowdown in advanced AI development. Congress faces a tight schedule with low odds of passing legislation before midterms, though proposals like an AI kill switch and independent monitoring have bipartisan support, while President Trump's dismissal of additional guardrails limits what a Republican-controlled Congress can achieve.