"We must remain vigilant in our fight against potential catastrophic events to our port infrastructure."
"I have two things I'm concerned about. No. 1, if the CCP decides not to replace with replacement parts or spare parts when they break down, it could hurt our ability to provide commerce."
"I think we need to get that word out."
"We may not have the same solutions or maybe an iteration of solutions, but we're on the same path."
"We cannot slow down AI, because our adversaries are not going to slow down."
"The only defense that we're going to have against AI is AI."
"I worry about that from a very strategic perspective."
"Can you imagine if the CCP, the PRC had all the information gathered, all the images gathered by 80 percent of the drones flying around?"
"But do you know for sure they're not uploading information back to the host?"
"That worries me too, that there may be Trojan horses all over the place we know nothing about."
"We also talked here about how we need to start to decouple."
"Frankly, we cannot slow down AI, because our adversaries are not going to slow down where they are."