Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2025
- senate
- house
- president
Last progress June 25, 2025 (5 months ago)
Introduced on June 25, 2025 by Ronald Lee Wyden
Sponsors (8)
House Votes
Senate Votes
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Presidential Signature
AI Summary
This bill tells the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to set rules for companies that use automated systems (including AI) to make important decisions about people’s lives, like access to or the cost, terms, or availability of services. These companies must study how their systems work and how they affect people, both before and after they’re used, keep detailed records, and file summary reports with the FTC. They also have to talk with experts and impacted groups, test for privacy and security risks, check performance and potential bias, and try to fix any likely harms to consumers. People must get clear notice, ways to opt out where offered, and ways to contest or appeal decisions. The FTC can treat violations like unfair or deceptive practices, and state attorneys general can also enforce the law. The bill does not block stronger state or local laws.
The FTC must publish yearly summaries and create an online public repository with limited information about these systems, so people, researchers, and advocates can learn how they’re used and how to seek help. The FTC will also set up a Bureau of Technology to help with this work.
Key points
- Who is affected: Companies the FTC covers that deploy automated decision systems for critical decisions about access to or the cost, terms, or availability of services and opportunities.
- What changes: Required impact assessments; documentation; initial and annual summary reports; stakeholder consultation; testing for privacy, security, performance, and bias; efforts to fix likely harms; consumer notice and ways to contest or opt out; public summaries via an FTC repository.
- When: The FTC must issue regulations within 2 years of enactment; those regulations take effect 2 years after they are issued. The public repository must go live within set deadlines after the rules are in place and is updated quarterly.
- Oversight and enforcement: The FTC enforces the rules; states can also bring cases. The law does not override state or local protections.