Don't you think that that would be frightening?

if we don't do it with China soon--frankly, we should've done it a long time ago--if we don't do it very, very quickly, I think we're in real trouble.

As part of securing our supply chain here in this area, should we consider limitations, if not outright prohibitions, on components that are manufactured in China?

Whatever we do, it has to happen fast.

I think your point, Mr. Amodei, about securing our supply chains is absolutely critical.

Let me get at this problem from a slightly different angle, which is, let's imagine a hypothetical in which the Communist government of Beijing decides to launch an invasion of Taiwan.

If they can't get into court to enforce them, they don't mean anything.

If we don't have things in place that are restraining what can be done with AI systems, we're going to have a really bad time.

This is an absolutely critical foundational right.

It strikes me that we're told that AI is new and it's a whole new kind of industry and it's glittery and it's almost magical, and yet it looks like it depends, in critical respects, on very old-fashioned, disgusting, immoral labor…

What's sad about that scenario is, that would be the best-case scenario.

This has been a tremendously helpful hearing. I just want to thank each of you, again, for taking the time to be here.

I think we should think of that in a little bit of a different category, and their obligations in a little bit of a different category.

That seems like an old, old story that I frankly don't want to see replicated again. That seems like a dystopia, not like a new future.

That is the true nightmare. And for my money, that is what this body has got to prevent.

this is a very serious structural issue here that we're going to have to think hard about, and the control of this technology by just a handful of companies and governments is a huge, huge problem.

I am totally in agreement with Senator Hawley in focusing on keeping it in America, made in America, when we're talking about AI.

I think this has surfaced an important point, and I just want to underscore this, because I think it's important.