{"slug": "senate-republican-on-trump-claim-ai-threat-is-hoax-come-on", "title": "Senate Republican on Trump claim AI threat is ‘hoax’: ‘Come on’", "summary": "Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said Tuesday that President Trump is wrong to call the threat posed by artificial intelligence a \"hoax,\" telling reporters at the Capitol, \"Come on, it's not a hoax. It's a real thing.\" Tillis, who is not running for reelection, said AI is an issue he has spent much of his professional career on.", "body_md": "Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Tuesday criticized President Trump’s dismissal of rising concerns about the dangers of artificial intelligence technology. “Come on, it’s not a hoax. It’s a real thing,” Tillis, who is not running for reelection, told reporters at the Capitol. “This is something that I’ve spent a lot of my professional career in,…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/senate-republican-on-trump-claim-ai-threat-is-hoax-come-on", "canonical_source": "https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6092827-gop-thom-tillis-donald-trump-ai-anxieties/", "published_at": "2026-09-16 14:44:58+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-16 15:18:47.054276+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Thom Tillis", "Donald Trump", "Republican Party", "United States Senate"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/senate-republican-on-trump-claim-ai-threat-is-hoax-come-on", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/senate-republican-on-trump-claim-ai-threat-is-hoax-come-on.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/senate-republican-on-trump-claim-ai-threat-is-hoax-come-on.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/senate-republican-on-trump-claim-ai-threat-is-hoax-come-on.jsonld"}}