Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
- Type
- Body with AI jurisdiction and named seats
- Place
- United States
- Last checked
- 2026-09-22
- Next check due
- 2026-12-21
Named seats
- Tom Cotton — chair, R, AR
- Mark Warner — ranking, D, VA
Official, up-to-date list of members Verified
Ways to reach them
- Public submission route
Its AI responsibilities
Intelligence Community use of AI and AI as an intelligence target. Send here: IC adoption of frontier models, AI in signals and open-source intelligence, foreign adversary AI capabilities assessments, AI-enabled foreign influence operations, and counterintelligence risk to US AI labs (including insider threat and foreign talent access). Proceedings are largely classified, so the public route is narrow and mostly one-way.
Current business
VERIFIED by referral: Cotton is lead sponsor of S.1705 Chip Security Act (referred to Banking). The committee's AI work is carried in the annual Intelligence Authorization Act. UNVERIFIED for open 2026 AI hearing titles — most sessions are closed.
Public route
VERIFIED: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/about-the-committee/contact/. Committee: 211 Hart, Washington DC 20510, 202-224-1700. This committee also operates the statutory Intelligence Community whistleblower channel, which is the realistic route for someone with classified or contractor-side AI concerns.
Research note
Chair verified 2026-09-22 against senate.gov committee_memberships_SLIN.htm; the minority leader of this committee holds the title Vice Chairman, not Ranking Member.