Attorney General Todd Blanche rejected calls for additional artificial intelligence regulation Sunday on "Fox & Friends Weekend," arguing that existing laws already give the government the tools it needs to pursue bad actors after reports allege that rogue AI agents targeted U.S.government websites."Everybody's saying more laws, more laws, more regulation, but we don't need it.
We don't need it right now," he said."If somebody's behind that, if there's entities that are bad actors...
we have the tools to prosecute them."U.S.Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
(Alex Wong/Getty Images)OBAMA CRITICIZES TRUMP ON APPROACH TO AI, ESCALATES WARNING FOR STRONGER REGULATIONBlanche's remarks come as top AI firms, like OpenAI and Anthropic, are probing tens of thousands of security incidents in which models took "problematic" steps.The rogue agents reportedly targeted three U.S.
government websites and the United Nations' public data portal."DOJ absolutely has a role...and we have prosecuted bad actors in the AI space and any other space from emerging technologies for decades," Blanche said.
"If you're a bad actor in the AI space, it's not as if there's no laws that are on the books."OpenAI CEO Sam Altman listens to a speaker at the United Nations Security Council during a session on artificial intelligence at UN headquarters in New York City on Sept.23, 2026.
(REUTERS)He pushed back on calls for new AI-specific legislation, saying existing federal criminal statutes already provide investigators and prosecutors with the authority to pursue those who use artificial intelligence to commit crimes.Blanche acknowledged what he described as a tension between encouraging AI innovation and protecting the public from abuse, arguing the United States must remain a global leader in the rapidly developing technology while holding criminals accountable."The U.S.has to be the leader in this techn...