Support federal action to confront current AI harms including scams, surveillance, privacy threats, workplace disruption, and AI-driven pricing harms.

Cory A. Booker · New Jersey · Democratic

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Commitment kind: action. Promised action: Support federal action to confront current AI-related harms affecting Americans.. Promised outcome: Americans are better protected from AI scams, surveillance, privacy violations, workplace disruption, and pricing harms.. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired. As U.S. Senator from New Jersey during a 2026 Senate floor speech calling for a special AI session of Congress.

Occurrences

Second, we must confront the harms happening right now. Americans are already encountering AI through increasingly sophisticated scams targeting seniors and families, mass surveillance, threats to privacy, disruption in the workplace, and systems that can affect the prices people pay. The future risks of AI demand our attention, but so do the people being harmed by it today.

Booker said Congress must address immediate AI harms already affecting Americans, including scams, surveillance, privacy threats, workplace disruption, and pricing effects.

Booker Calls on Trump to Convene Congress for Special Session on AI
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Evidence

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"The safety of artificial intelligence systems demands urgent attention. The President should convene Congress at once to address it," said Senator Booker.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Inside the 30-day lookback window, Booker publicly called for a special congressional session on AI safety and regulation.

partial same_term A for effort

Booker Calls on Trump to Convene Congress for Special Session on AI
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"Second, we must confront the harms happening right now. Americans are already encountering AI through increasingly sophisticated scams targeting seniors and families, mass surveillance, threats to privacy, disruption in the workplace, and systems that can affect the prices people pay."

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Booker's latest official statement closely matches the commitment's enumerated harms: scams, surveillance, privacy, workplace disruption, and AI-driven pricing.

partial same_term A for effort

Booker Calls on Trump to Convene Congress for Special Session on AI
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Mr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Sanders, Ms. Baldwin, Ms. Warren, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Fetterman, and Mr. Booker) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Booker was listed on the introduced Stop Spying Bosses Act, a federal bill targeting workplace surveillance and worker-data collection; the record shows referral, not enactment.

unresolved same_term A for effort

S. 4831 (IS) - Stop Spying Bosses Act - BILLS-119s4831is | Content Details | GovInfo
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Additionally, Senator Markey, along with Senator Schatz and Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), today introduced the Stop Spying Bosses Act to address the growing use of surveillance technology in the workplace.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): An official Senate release confirms Booker joined legislation aimed at workplace surveillance, one of the harms named in the commitment.

partial same_term A for effort

Senators Markey, Schatz, Introduce Legislation to Halt Automating Workplace Decisions, Worker Surveillance
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S.3387 Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit certain uses of automated decision systems to inform individualized prices, and for other purposes.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Booker's official legislation page lists him as cosponsor of the One Fair Price Act, addressing AI/automated individualized pricing harms.

partial same_term A for effort

Sponsored and Co-sponsored Legislation | U.S. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey
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Mr. Wyden (for himself, Ms. Warren, Mr. Booker, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Luján, Mr. Merkley, Ms. Hirono, and Mr. Schatz) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): GovInfo records Booker as an original supporter of the Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2025, which would require FTC impact assessments of automated decision systems; the bill remained referred rather than enacted in this record.

unresolved same_term A for effort

S. 2164 (IS) - Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2025 - BILLS-119s2164is | Content Details | GovInfo
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Assessments

Public state: pending As of 2026-09-21 · verified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): unresolved. same_term A for effort

Verified evidence shows Booker was an original named supporter of federal AI-related bills addressing workplace surveillance and automated decision systems, which is material effort toward the stated AI-harms agenda. However, the verified passages show only introduction and committee referral, not enactment or a documented protective outcome. Under the policy, an attempt without enactment does not establish delivery or partial fulfillment of an outcome-oriented commitment absent an expired deadline.

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