Josh Hawley: “That’s not my favorite thing.”

I opened an investigation into OpenAI on Sept. 10 after its agents breached New York-based open-weight AI platform Hugging Face in July.

At the end of the day, they’re a product, and if you make that product in a reckless kind of way, and that product causes … significant harm and damage — they crash a hospital ER, they shut down a bank so that folks can’t get their money —…

We should start by suspending the gas tax, including the tax on diesel. We could take 20-30 cents off the top immediately by doing that.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declined to attend and testify.