Overview
- Sen. Mark Warner circulated a discussion draft called the AI AGENT Act on June 29 to gather feedback rather than to formally introduce a Senate bill.
- The draft proposes a legal 'duty of loyalty' that would require AI agents acting for people to prioritize users' interests and ban undisclosed commission or steering deals.
- The bill would give the Federal Trade Commission authority to certify independent vetting bodies that keep a registry of compliant agent vendors and set baseline privacy and security standards.
- It would require large platforms (those with more than 50 million monthly users) to let end users choose at least one certified third-party agent and would obligate agents to link to a human operator and include clear grant-and-revoke controls.
- Key questions remain about enforcement, the technical identity infrastructure, and likely pushback from major platforms that have taken steps such as code changes to block outside agents, and the draft sits beside other federal AI moves on model reviews and export controls.