The AI Threat Output and Monitoring Incident Containment Act is a bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives on July 27, 2026 by Representative Celeste Maloy (R-UT-2). It would establish an Advanced Artificial Intelligence Nuclear Evaluation Program to test advanced AI systems for nuclear-incident and loss-of-control risks. The bill was referred the same day to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (Source: congress.gov).
Status and provisions
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Bill number | H.R.9965, 119th Congress |
| Introduced | July 27, 2026 |
| Sponsor | Rep. Celeste Maloy (R-UT-2) |
| Referral | Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (July 27, 2026) |
| Program created | Advanced Artificial Intelligence Nuclear Evaluation Program |
| Participation | Mandatory for large AI developers |
| Penalties | Civil penalties up to $1 million per violation for non-compliance |
| Sunset | Seven years after enactment |
The bill's evaluation program is directed at two risk categories together: nuclear incidents and loss of control. Pairing them in a single testing programme is unusual among federal AI proposals, which have more often treated chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear uplift as one category and autonomy or loss-of-control risk as another — the split reflected in OpenAI's Preparedness Framework and in Executive Order 14110 (RESCINDED)'s separate directions to NIST and to the Secretary of Energy.
The penalty is stated per violation rather than per day, and the programme terminates seven years after enactment rather than running indefinitely (Source: congress.gov).
Relationships
- related: Risk Taxonomy: Catastrophic, Systemic, and Existential Risk, AI Pre-Release Vetting — the risk category and the testing posture the programme adopts.
- related: Executive Order 14110 (RESCINDED) — the rescinded executive order that directed the Secretary of Energy to develop model evaluation tools and testbeds for nuclear and nonproliferation capabilities.
- related: Human Dignity and Emerging Technologies Act (S.5130) / Commission on Human Dignity — a contemporaneous bill taking the opposite approach, advisory only and without enforcement authority.
- instance-of: Frontier AI Governance — a mandatory-evaluation instrument aimed at the largest developers.