Alex Padilla: “I strongly oppose Todd Blanche to be our next Attorney General. His confirmation will be a setback for the independence…”

America leads in AI innovation, and we must lead the world in AI safety and international cooperation, including by working with China to develop a formal agreement that would slow down, and potentially enact a mutual pause in, frontier AI…

So if you’re thinking, What the hell is going on? That’s a fair question.

As extraordinary as the promise of some of AI’s advanced capabilities are, safety incidents make clear that both national and international infrastructure is threatened by unregulated testing and release of AI models.

Because presidents don’t get the final word. Senators don’t get the final word. Voters do.