Josh Hawley

Whatever we do, it has to happen fast.

It's been a privilege to get to work with him. These have been incredibly substantive hearings.

This is an absolutely critical foundational right.

This would be Google's interest. Right? Above all, profits.

I want to thank Senator Blumenthal for being willing to do something about this problem.

I am totally in agreement with Senator Hawley in focusing on keeping it in America, made in America, when we're talking about AI.

What's sad about that scenario is, that would be the best-case scenario.

this is a very serious structural issue here that we're going to have to think hard about, and the control of this technology by just a handful of companies and governments is a huge, huge problem.

If they can't get into court to enforce them, they don't mean anything.

Well, that's good, because here is, I think, what would be terrible to see is, this new technology that is built by foreign workers, not American workers.

I think that, for my part, I have expressed my own sense of what our priorities ought to be when it comes to legislation.

Will the Senate actually act? Will the leadership in both parties--both parties--will it actually be willing to act?

I think your point, Mr. Amodei, about securing our supply chains is absolutely critical.

I think the path that things are going, in terms of the scaling of open source models, I think it's going down a very dangerous path.

I mean, what's wrong with having a technology that actually employs people in the United States of America and pays them well?

It strikes me that we're told that AI is new and it's a whole new kind of industry and it's glittery and it's almost magical, and yet it looks like it depends, in critical respects, on very old-fashioned, disgusting, immoral labor…

Don't you think that that would be frightening?

If we don't have things in place that are restraining what can be done with AI systems, we're going to have a really bad time.

Well, you say that you tell the model not to produce misinformation. I'm not sure exactly what that means, but do you tell it not to help massive companies make a profit?

This has been a tremendously helpful hearing. I just want to thank each of you, again, for taking the time to be here.

Let me get at this problem from a slightly different angle, which is, let's imagine a hypothetical in which the Communist government of Beijing decides to launch an invasion of Taiwan.

if we don't do it with China soon--frankly, we should've done it a long time ago--if we don't do it very, very quickly, I think we're in real trouble.

I think we should think of that in a little bit of a different category, and their obligations in a little bit of a different category.

It seems to me that your technology melded with theirs could make them an enormous sum of money. That would be great for them. Would it be so good for the American consumer?

As AI develops, we've got to make sure that we have safeguards in place that will ensure this new technology is actually good for the American people.