BLADE Act Blocking Large-scale Adversarial Distillation Efforts Act of 2026
IntroducedRead twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · Aug 5, 2026
In plain language
Federal bill aimed at preventing foreign adversaries from extracting the key technical features of closed-source, United States-owned artificial intelligence models, through large-scale adversarial distillation. Known as the BLADE Act, it is framed as a national-security measure against AI model theft.