Who Watches the Sentinel?
Every AI that gets deployed at our scale needs the same floor: public training-data disclosure, published guardrails and who wrote them, a channel to report it when it goes wrong, and a real person who reads the reports. Some of that is already law. This page is the running index of who is doing the work and where the law actually stands — federal and state, with the official sources. If you only read two sections of Your Agent, Their Terms, make them this page and the walkthrough.
Public comment windows
Colorado ADMT & Chatbot Safety rulemaking
The Colorado Attorney General wants public comments on the rules implementing SB 26-189 and HB 26-1263 — written comments through October 26, 2026, with the formal hearing that same day. Real docket, open to anybody.
Submit a comment — Colorado AG →Comment windows like this open regularly — mostly in state rulemaking, occasionally federal. New ones get added here as they open. Subscribe to the dispatch and you'll hear about them the week they appear.
Organizations worth following
Center for Humane Technology
The AI Roadmap — seven principles and specific legislative asks, written to be handed to lawmakers rather than posted on a blog.
Follow their work →EPIC — Electronic Privacy Information Center
Litigation, public comments, and a running policy monitor connecting AI to privacy and civil-liberties law. Old-school, effective, unglamorous.
Follow their work →EFF — Electronic Frontier Foundation
The digital-rights baseline since 1990 — AI transparency, surveillance pushback, and consumer rights at the case-law level.
Follow their work →Mozilla Foundation
Funds the open-source tooling independent AI auditors actually use, and keeps consumer pressure on the companies that made opaque products.
Follow their work →AI Now Institute
Policy research aimed squarely at industry self-regulation being a scam — argues in favor of real, independent oversight.
Follow their work →Algorithmic Justice League
Origin of the 'Who Audits the Auditors?' work that proved outside audits matter — audits of the audit ecosystem itself.
Follow their work →State legislation
AI law in America is being written state by state. These are the flagship laws the dispatch draws on — with links to the official bill text, not press releases.
AB 2013 — Generative AI: Training Data Transparency
Generative-AI developers must publish a public summary of their training datasets — number of data points, whether personal info or protected IP is in them, whether the data was purchased or licensed.
SB 53 — Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act
Frontier-scale developers must publish their safety frameworks, file critical-safety-incident reports through a public Office of Emergency Services channel, and enjoy whistleblower protection inside the labs.
SB 26-189 — Automated Decision-Making Technology Act
The country's first comprehensive state AI law (SB 24-205, 2024), repealed and reenacted in 2026 with the duties of care and impact assessments removed, consumer notice and human-review rights retained. Effective January 1, 2027.
Federal bills, pending
Congress has passed exactly one AI-specific law to date (the TAKE IT DOWN Act). Everything below is still in motion — which means now is when comments and calls actually matter.
AI Foundation Model Transparency Act of 2026
Would direct the FTC to require public disclosure of training data, algorithms, and limitations for large AI models — the closest thing to federal 'show your work' law in flight.
AI Whistleblower Protection Act
Whistleblower protection for employees of AI labs who report safety issues — mirrors the California SB 53 protections at the federal level.
Trackers — what's moving and where
Federal
AI Watch
CRS's curated view of AI policy and pending federal AI bills.
Open the tracker →Artificial Intelligence Legislation Tracker
Every AI bill in the 118th and 119th Congress organized by what it actually does.
Open the tracker →AI Legislation Tracker
Federal and state AI bills on one map, refreshed daily.
Open the tracker →Federal AI Bills in Congress — Live Tracker
About two dozen federal AI bills, directly linked to their Congress.gov pages, with plain summaries.
Open the tracker →State
NCSL Artificial Intelligence Legislation Database
Every 2025-present state AI bill, enacted and pending, filterable by state and topic. Updated monthly.
Open the tracker →US State AI Governance Legislation Tracker
Lawyer-annotated status of every state AI bill that matters, plus the amendments while they're still moving.
Open the tracker →AI Watch: Global Regulatory Tracker — United States
Where federal and state AI law actually stands, updated continuously — the industry view of the same rules we're following.
Open the tracker →Build Your Own Personal AI Assistant
Five parts, an honest weekend of setup, the two questions to ask about any assistant — dated October 8, 2026, with the full prompts sent by email.
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