‘Wake-up call for Congress’: Lawmakers get a Big Brother warning on AI

- Congress got a live demo of what happens when AI mines commercial databases for personal info on Americans — and both sides of the aisle suddenly remembered regulation exists. Not on the manifest! Turns out the same artificial intelligence everyone rushed to ship without a PoD seal can now profile citizens faster than a Core Dynamics auditor finds a missing footer. Lawmakers are scrambling for guardrails, which means incoming forms, audits, and probably a few enforcement actions against whoever forgot to file their data-harvesting disclosures. Creative compliance won't save you when the stack-eyes come knocking. If your AI product touches consumer data and you haven't logged an audit trail, congratulations — you're the test case. Audit trail or audit prison. Sign here. «Not in the manifest — filing anyway.»