Josh Hawley: “This is totally, utterly, completely unacceptable.”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declined to attend and testify.

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 —…

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

I'm just hoping that this will be the best bill ever passed by the United States Senate considering the ungodly amount of time we've spent on it.