Josh Hawley: “You can’t give into the violence.”

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.

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

If that’s what the House is able to pass, I’m certainly happy to take that and to work with it.