I missed a series of votes today. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall no. 383, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 384, and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 385. personal explanation

I completely endorse--and good, the technology is being used properly, we probably need an export control regime that weaves those three things together.

You'd condemn what the Chinese government's doing to the Uyghurs, and the Xinjiang Province, and all of that?

Don't you think 13 is awfully low, though?

Sometimes you can approach this and say, 'Look, if we don't provide this to somebody, somebody else will.'

There's no national security threat that is more significant for the United States than China.

If they ask you to delete it, you delete it?

No, I don't. I want them to be making cars here in the United States with American workers.

Yes. And again, a regime that is fundamentally evil, that is inflicting the kind of atrocities on its own citizens that you just alluded to, that is doing to the Uyghurs, what it's doing, that it's running modern day concentration…

Is it stored in the United States? Is it stored overseas?

Do we want 13-year-olds to be having those conversations?

I'm just asking you why we should trust you with our children.

we don't make the same mistakes that Congress made with social media where, 30 years ago now, Congress basically outsourced social media to the biggest corporations in the world.

You'd condemn what the Chinese government's doing to the Uyghurs, and the Xinjiang Province, and all of that?

No, we're not. We're talking about your chatbot. We're talking about Bing Chat.

I don't want AI to be the latest accelerant of that trend.

we have a responsibility here now to do our part to make sure that this new technology, which holds a lot of promise but also peril, actually works for the American people.

we don't make the same mistakes that Congress made with social media where, 30 years ago now, Congress basically outsourced social media to the biggest corporations in the world.