I think that, for my part, I have expressed my own sense of what our priorities ought to be when it comes to legislation.

I mean, what's wrong with having a technology that actually employs people in the United States of America and pays them well?

The workers on the project were paid, on average, between $1.46 an hour and $3.74 an hour.

Don't you think that that would be frightening?

It seems to me that your technology melded with theirs could make them an enormous sum of money. That would be great for them. Would it be so good for the American consumer?

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 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.

This is an absolutely critical foundational right.

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

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…

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

As AI develops, we've got to make sure that we have safeguards in place that will ensure this new technology is actually good for the American people.