The Alliance for Secure AI is a US advocacy organization working on the risks of advanced artificial intelligence. Its chief executive is Brendan Steinhauser (How MAGA learned to love AI safety — Nicky Woolf (Transformer, October 2025)). In 2026 it endorsed several federal AI bills and signed two coalition letters led by Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI), including the September 16, 2026 letter to Senate leaders setting minimum requirements for any Senate AI framework (Senate coalition letter on redlines for AI safety legislation (Americans for Responsible Innovation, September 2026)).
Positions and statements
A 2025 Transformer article on conservative interest in AI safety quotes two of the organization's staff. Peyton Hornberger described AI-skeptic concerns as clustering into "two big buckets": acute harms, such as children's online safety, exploitative chatbots and mental-health crises worsened by AI tools, and existential or long-term risks. Steinhauser said religiously framed skepticism of AI rests on "this idea that we were created by God and in his image, we have a special place on Earth, and that we are not to be superseded by anything else" (How MAGA learned to love AI safety — Nicky Woolf (Transformer, October 2025)).
Legislative endorsements
The organization is listed among supporters of four federal bills:
- The Future of AI Innovation Act (S. 3952), reintroduced February 26, 2026 to put the Center for AI Standards and Innovation into statute within NIST; Steinhauser gave a supporting statement carried in the Senate Commerce Committee minority's release (Source: commerce.senate.gov; Future of Artificial Intelligence Innovation Act of 2026 — S. 3952 bill text (introduced February 26, 2026)).
- The AI Kill Switch Act (H.R. 9917), introduced July 23, 2026, requiring covered developers to maintain a technical shutdown capability. Steinhauser said the sponsors "deserve credit for confronting this before a crisis forces the question" (Source: lieu.house.gov).
- The Collaboration on Adversarial Threats and Security Risks Act (S. 5105), introduced July 23, 2026, which exempts from the antitrust laws certain agreements among developers to reduce AI security risks (Source: schiff.senate.gov).
- The Stop Rogue AI Act, introduced September 3, 2026, directing NIST to publish standards for securely deploying AI agents (Source: axios.com).
Coalition letters
The organization was the fourth of 28 signatories of ARI's letter of September 9, 2026 asking President Trump to publish the White House's framework for pre-release assessment of frontier AI models (Coalition letter to President Trump on public release of the White House frontier-AI review framework (September 2026)).
It is the first-listed of 20 organizations, alongside five individuals, on ARI's letter of September 16, 2026 to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Senate. That letter asks that any framework "empower the government, not AI companies, to set mandatory, binding, and enforceable safety standards for advanced AI," that auditing of AI models be "both mandatory and conducted independently," and that Congress set a federal floor that preserves the states' authority to regulate further (Senate coalition letter on redlines for AI safety legislation (Americans for Responsible Innovation, September 2026)). The Washington Post reported the letter as a campaign to reject the frontier-AI bill being developed by Thune and Sen. Amy Klobuchar; the letter itself names no bill (Source: washingtonpost.com).
Relationships
- related: Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI) — lead of both coalition letters it signed
- related: Senate coalition letter on redlines for AI safety legislation (Americans for Responsible Innovation, September 2026), Coalition letter to President Trump on public release of the White House frontier-AI review framework (September 2026) — letters it signed
- supports: Future of Artificial Intelligence Innovation Act of 2026 (S. 3952), AI Kill Switch Act (Lieu–Moran), Collaboration on Adversarial Threats and Security Risks Act (S. 5105), Stop Rogue AI Act (2026) — bills it endorsed
- related: How MAGA learned to love AI safety — Nicky Woolf (Transformer, October 2025) — source of its staff's statements on conservative AI skepticism
- related: AI Pre-Release Vetting, AI Federalism