Josh Hawley: “If Big Tech companies are going to design AI agents that wreak havoc, these companies better be on the hook for any…”

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 —…

(People) ought to be guaranteed no electricity bills will go up by a cent because of a data center.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declined to attend and testify.

We should suspend the federal gas tax. I introduced legislation to do that back in April, so we’re way overdue.