Alphabet's Letter to the House Judiciary Committee [pdf] (judiciary.house.gov)

Alphabet submitted a formal letter to the House Judiciary Committee laying out its position on AI development, deployment, and oversight. The company frames its goals as promoting innovation while managing risks, and asks lawmakers for a risk‑based, flexible regulatory approach rather than prescriptive rules that could stifle research. The letter highlights Alphabet’s ongoing investments in safety teams, red‑teaming, pre‑release testing, and external audits as core parts of its governance strategy, and stresses transparency about capabilities and limitations for high‑risk systems. For the AI/ML community the letter matters because it signals how one of the largest model builders expects to be regulated and what technical mitigations it considers essential. Alphabet emphasizes provenance and data‑handling practices, access controls, monitoring and incident response, and privacy‑preserving techniques (e.g., differential privacy, aggregate reporting) as practical safeguards — plus documentation like model cards and risk assessments to support external oversight. The letter also touches on competition and content‑moderation tradeoffs, which could affect access to large models, tooling, and researcher access. If lawmakers follow Alphabet’s recommendations, expect legislation that prioritizes demonstrable safety practices, independent auditing, and tiered regulation for higher‑risk systems — all of which will shape compliance, transparency expectations, and best practices across the AI ecosystem.