Josh Hawley: “Thank you very much. Thank you, Madam Chair.”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declined to attend and testify.

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.

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 —…