Artificial Intelligence Governance and Emerging Threats Act

The bill

Congress would establish a new office inside the Executive Office of the President: the Office of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Threats. A Secretary would run it — Senate-confirmed, serving at the pleasure of the president, paid at Executive Schedule Level I, the same tier as a Cabinet secretary. Five deputy representatives, also Senate-confirmed, would cover intergovernmental coordination, international engagement, private-sector outreach, national security, and economic and workforce analysis.

That is the entire text. There is no second policy.

What you should be aware of

• The office answers to the president. The draft places it in the Executive Office of the President (§2(a)); the Secretary holds office "at the pleasure of the President" (§2(b)(1)), reports directly to him (§2(d)(8)), and performs "such other functions … as the President may direct" (§2(d)(9)). Congress's side of the ledger: testimony twice a year, in an unclassified setting (§2(k)).
• It holds the government-wide AI-policy pen. Developing and "coordinating the implementation of United States policy" on AI and emerging technology threats is the office's primary responsibility (§2(d)(1)), and it may issue policy guidance to federal departments and agencies to that end (§2(d)(5)).
• The mission can grow. Section 2(d)(9) lets the president expand the office's functions, bounded only by "consistent with applicable law." The draft contains no budget authorization and no sunset: Congress has not proposed sizing, funding, or ending the office.
• What it asks of you, in one line: nothing. Enforcement: nobody. The draft assigns no duty to any private entity. The only private-sector mechanism is a liaison and a roundtable at least twice a year (§2(g)) — no reporting duty, no filing, no fee, no prohibition, no penalty, no enforcement body, and no safe harbor, because there is nothing to comply with.
• The limits Congress wrote in. Taking services, personnel, information, or facilities from another agency requires that agency head's consent (§2(l)); nothing transfers or supersedes any existing agency's authority (§2(m)); the lanes of the Secretary of State, the Defense Secretary, DHS, and the intelligence community are protected by name (§2(f)(2), §2(h)(2)).
• Every secondhand story about this bill is one story. All coverage traces to the sponsor's press release and his posted draft, and an audit of the principal write-up notes it contains no critics (ChamberLight). No organization has endorsed or opposed the bill as of October 26, 2026.