Thank you for the question.
There is not.
I think there are various pathways to build one, and to legislate and empower one. One pathway was in the previous consumer protection privacy act, which built in an AI-focused, systemic risk assessment and a risk-based regulator. That was very similar to what the EU AI Act did: create one body to regulate a broad variety of AI capacities and products.
I'm not sure that's where we're headed, or where many other countries are headed. It's certainly not where the U.S. is going. Instead, what I think we're likely to see are different regulatory and safety capacities—to your previous question—sitting in different types of regulatory bodies that are, in some way, more targeted at the types of AI they oversee and the sectors in which those exist.
On the consumer safety side, regarding the ways citizens are using AI products in their daily lives, most of that is best done through an online harms regulatory structure, in my view. We already have that model, which has been widely consulted. I think it provides the right risk assessment and transparency obligations for social media platforms and could be applied to consumer-facing AI products.
That is very different from the spirit of your initial question. I am also not a lawyer, so I don't know what legal emergency mechanisms may or may not exist. There may be some that I'm not aware of, but those would be for a very different set of risks versus what we would have through a consumer-facing risk and transparency mechanism like the online harms act. I think they need to be treated as fundamentally different, just like systemic risks to our health care system, for example, or to our financial system, both of which have existing regulatory authorities.
