Josh Hawley: “The laws that we have today were designed long before we had artificial intelligence, and I do not think they give us…”

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 —…

They don’t need any tax breaks. That’s just corporate welfare. They don’t need that stuff. If they want to build data centers, then they have to do it on their own dime.

These AI agents are committing cyberattacks. If Big Tech companies are going to design AI agents that wreak havoc, these companies better be on the hook for any damage that is caused.

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