Overview

• The Responsible Innovation and Safe Expertise Act would grant immunity from an array of professional liability claims if developers meet transparency requirements.
• Professionals such as doctors, lawyers and engineers using AI tools would retain legal responsibility for any errors in their decisions.
• The legislation excludes reckless or willful misconduct by developers from its protections and does not cover applications like self-driving vehicles.
• A clause in the broader “One Big Beautiful Bill” seeks to bar states from enacting AI rules for ten years, with Republicans offering to instead withhold broadband funds from regulating states.
• Tech executives warn that a uniform federal framework is needed to prevent a fragmented state patchwork that could hamper U.S. competitiveness with China.