6. Senator Warner Releases the First Federal Draft Regulating AI Shopping Agents

76 million Americans bought something via an AI agent in a single month, under no federal framework defining what the agent owed them. Senator Warner's discussion draft creates one — a new legal category treating the agent as a fiduciary, with registration, auditable records, and a ban on using your data for anything but the task you delegated.

We cover the anti-gatekeeping clause that would force Amazon, Google and Apple to serve competing agents on equal terms, and the critique that the bill may be regulating one future while another arrives.

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Sources

• Senator Warner — Discussion draft press release
• CyberScoop — Warner bill would create federally vetted list for AI agents
• DLA Piper — Top points on the discussion draft
• Opus Research — The AI AGENT Act assumes one future. What if we get another?
• CIO — How the Senate's AI AGENT Act could reshape enterprise AI governance