# Ro Khanna **Entity class:** Person **Domain:** United States politics / AI governance **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Ro Khanna is a United States representative from California who announced the Human Control Over AI Act in September 2026. ## Mechanism and significance His proposal is treated in the source as a test case for whether governance should regulate harmful applications and deployment conditions or attempt to prohibit general improvement mechanisms. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#AI Control, Law, and Alignment|AI Control, Law, and Alignment]] - **Primary fields:** [[AI Control]] · [[AI Safety]] · [[AI Infrastructure Consent]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Human Control Over AI Act]] · [[Recursive-AI Prohibition]] · [[Mandatory AI Containment]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.