House Democratic committee leaders with major jurisdiction over artificial intelligence policy on Wednesday called on five frontier AI companies to ensure Congress is notified of major AI safety incidents within 48 hours. The top Democrats for the House Energy and Commerce, Science, Space and Technology and Judiciary committees set out the demand in letters to Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceXSI, in which they also requested accounts of all known safety incidents to date. “We expect that you will notify us within 48 hours of discovery of any such incident,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter, adding that the companies should tell Congress “as soon as possible and no later than within 24 hours of discovery,” where an incident appears to involve critical infrastructure. The missives signed by Frank Pallone (N.J.), Zoe Lofgren (Calif.) and Jamie Raskin (Md.) preview how their party is expected to oversee the powerful technology if they win a House majority in next week’s midterm elections.…