How the Senate’s AI AGENT Act could reshape enterprise AI governance

A proposed US Senate bill governing consumer AI agents could become an early test case for how organizations assess the security, accountability, and governance of autonomous software systems. The discussion draft , released by Senator Mark Warner, is known as the Artificial Intelligence Access, Gatekeeper Exchange, and Nondiscriminatory Transfer Act of 2026, or AI AGENT Act. Under the proposal, providers of “custodial user agents” would have to register with the Federal Trade Commission before