I mean, this is just crushing our producers in the bread basket to our nation, to the world, and it is all because of this Administration.

I think that, based on what I'm hearing today, don't you think that we're probably going to need to do a heck of a lot more than to focus on what use AI is being used for?

I think it would be beneficial if the Supreme Court had a code of conduct.

I think we need to treat that as seriously as we treat other very powerful technologies.

AI truly is a game-changing tool, and we need to get the regulation of this tool right.

I can't envision or imagine right now what kind of a licensing scheme we would be able to create to pretty much regulate the vastness of this game-changing tool.

I can't envision or imagine right now what kind of a licensing scheme we would be able to create to pretty much regulate the vastness of this game-changing tool.

If you want to find out what China is actually doing in the countries of the Pacific, and around the globe, for that matter, please read President Panuelo's letter, I recommend it to any of you.

I think that, based on what I'm hearing today, don't you think that we're probably going to need to do a heck of a lot more than to focus on what use AI is being used for?

I hope we can all stipulate at this point that the PRC is actively, consciously, and very deliberately expanding its influence across not just the compact countries, but the entire Pacific, all of the jurisdictions of the Pacific, and that…

The NDS, of course, identifies the People's Republic of China as our most consequential strategic [competitor], our pacing challenge, and an opponent to a free and open Indo-Pacific.

The top three jurisdictions with large compact populations: Hawaii, Guam, and the CNMI, had $1.8 billion in compact impact consequence.

I cannot accept the consequences to Hawaii or, for that matter, to Guam, to the CNMI, to Arkansas, to Washington, to Oregon, to California.

As we head towards artificial general intelligence and the impact that will have and the power of that technology, I think we need to treat that as seriously as we treat other very powerful technologies.

AI truly is a game-changing tool, and we need to get the regulation of this tool right.

The PRC remains the world's worst environment for Internet freedom.

I can't envision or imagine right now what kind of a licensing scheme we would be able to create to pretty much regulate the vastness of this game-changing tool.

Aloha, and thank you very much for the opportunity to testify today on your fiscal year 2024 NDAA.