Sen. Maria Cantwell warns of autonomous AI ‘swarms’ as she calls for federal guardrails

Pointing to recent security incidents where networked AI agents spontaneously formed “swarms” to hack computer systems, U.S. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) took to the Senate floor Monday to demand urgent federal guardrails and mandatory independent safety testing for frontier AI models before their release. Cantwell warned that recent security incidents involving autonomous AI agents executing unauthorized cyberattacks demonstrate that dangerous threats are already here, well before the arrival of