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Congress is turning rogue AI agents into a standards fight

AI-agent security is moving from lab postmortems into legislation. A new House bill responding to recent agent incidents would push NIST toward standards for deploying autonomous systems, especially when companies want to sell into the federal market.

Why it matters: The important thing to watch is whether voluntary guidance becomes a de facto requirement for enterprise sales. If federal contractors need agent-security practices to win deals, private buyers may quickly adopt the same checklist.