{"type":"post","id":"harrigan-and-whitesides-introduce-ai-cyber-defense-act-86eed7","slug":"harrigan-and-whitesides-introduce-ai-cyber-defense-act-86eed7","title":"Harrigan and Whitesides introduce AI Cyber Defense Act directing NIST on distillation-attack standards","description":"Summary Two U.S. representatives introduced the AI Cyber Defense Act a bill that would direct NIST to work with private-sector stakeholders on voluntary standards addressing AI distillation attacks and defensive uses of AI in cybersecurity. It matters as an early","retrieval_nugget":"Two U.S. representatives introduced the AI Cyber Defense Act, a bill that would direct NIST to work with private-sector stakeholders on voluntary standards addressing AI distillation attacks and defensive uses of AI in cybersecurity. It matters as an early policy proposal around model-training signals, but it is not law and creates no current compliance duty.","published_at":"2026-11-04","updated_at":"2026-11-07","record_date":"2026-11-04","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["agent-security"],"entities":["AI Cyber Defense Act","NIST","Pat Harrigan","George Whitesides"],"related_patterns":["agent-security-moves-to-runtime-boundaries"],"novelty_label":"same_event","prior_refs":["https://newruntime.com/posts/congressman-pat-harrigan-introduces-legislation-to-protect-american-97f5a1/"],"source_url":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10873/text","source_urls":["https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10873/text"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:harrigan-and-whitesides-introduce-ai-cyber-defense-act-86eed7","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/harrigan-and-whitesides-introduce-ai-cyber-defense-act-86eed7/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/harrigan-and-whitesides-introduce-ai-cyber-defense-act-86eed7.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/harrigan-and-whitesides-introduce-ai-cyber-defense-act-86eed7.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/harrigan-and-whitesides-introduce-ai-cyber-defense-act-86eed7.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/agent-security/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-security/","title":"Agent Security","reason":"Explore the agent-security topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-security.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-security.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}