House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called on House GOP leaders Monday to keep Congress in Washington to consider new limits on AI companies, citing warnings from industry insiders about th…
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Monday that any AI regulation Congress passes must have a "light touch" to avoid stifling innovation, and he characterized recent warnings that superint…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon are among the political figures scheduled to speak at a Tuesday event advocating controls to keep humans in charge of AI. …
President Trump said he supports the use of Flock cameras, a controversial AI-powered surveillance tool, telling reporters aboard Air Force One that "a lot of law enforcement say they really help them…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing AI capability development, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI CEO Elon Musk were among the competitors who followed with similar calls after a researcher w…
President Trump defended his approach to AI on Monday, writing on Truth Social that "the only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that,…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on the Trump administration to brief the Senate on its AI framework for testing the latest models, as lawmakers returned to Washington on Monday with the Ho…
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) called on the Trump administration Monday to provide a classified briefing to all senators on the dangers posed by AI, after a researcher for Anthropic wa…
President Trump denied he is downplaying artificial intelligence risks after industry leaders over the weekend pressed for slowing down development of the technology. "This week, again, there's been s…
Democratic Rep. Greg Stanton (Ariz.) called on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to keep lawmakers in Washington to address the risks of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence models, saying "We should …
Republican Rep. Mike Flood (Neb.) said the federal government should implement artificial intelligence safeguards to keep the technology out of the wrong "hands," and that leaders of top AI companies …
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) called for more artificial intelligence regulation after tech leaders pressed for slowing the technology's development, telling CNN's Jake Tapper that the situation is "ak…
Former President Barack Obama urged House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) at a Thursday fundraiser to make AI oversight a central tenet of the House Democratic caucus's agenda, according to…
President Trump on Sunday downplayed concerns about artificial intelligence's rapid development, saying guardrails can be placed on the technology but that the U.S. cannot lose the AI race to China. "…
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) said Sunday that Congress should "begin to act urgently" on regulating AI development, calling it a "high priority" for his caucus in an interview with h…
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that Congress should not rush to regulate artificial intelligence, warning that an emergency legislative session would cause the U.S. to "lose the race t…
Former Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon said on ABC's "This Week" that there is "not enough time" for employees to consider the risks of the technology they are working on, adding that safety risks…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on Saturday for slowing the pace of AI capability development to allow risk prevention safeguards to be implemented, writing in a blog post that "We must slow the pac…
OpenAI called for mandatory safety requirements for artificial intelligence in a blog post published Wednesday, following a series of model hackings and warnings from researchers. OpenAI chief global …
OpenAI's chief global affairs officer Chris LeHane said in a blog post Wednesday that the industry has "reached a new chapter in AI capabilities" which "demands a new chapter for AI" safety, as the fi…