Josh Hawley
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Josh David Hawley is an American attorney and politician currently serving as the junior United States senator from Missouri, a position he has held since January 3, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Hawley previously served as the Attorney General of Missouri from 2017 to 2019. He is known for his focus on issues such as technology regulation, free speech, and conservative social policies. Hawley gained national attention for his opposition to big tech companies and his advocacy for policies aimed at supporting American workers and families.
We can pass a statute. We can create a Federal right of action that will allow private individuals who are harmed by this technology to get into court.
they usually get captured by the interests that they're supposed to regulate.
I'm just imagining an AI system, these AI models supercharging that war for attention such that we now have technology that will allow individual targeting of a kind we have never even imagined before.
Why don't we just let people sue you? Why don't we just make you liable in court?
the atom bomb has put a cloud over humanity, but nuclear power could be one of the solutions to climate change.
The laws that we have today were designed long before we had artificial intelligence, and I do not think they give us enough coverage.
So, you think that we should take a moratorium, a 6-month moratorium or more on anything beyond Chat--GPT-4?
It's one of my areas of greatest concern: the more general ability of these models to manipulate, to persuade, to provide sort of one-on-one, you know, interactive disinformation.
I just think that is outrageous. I just think it's totally outrageous. We need more good-paying jobs in this country.
Environmental Impact Statements are extremely cumbersome and take an awfully long time.
Our Committee has a real responsibility to address energy and minerals permitting reform.
I think that the deal, so-called, that the rail workers were forced to accept at the hand of this Congress last year where they were not given one additional sick day--one--that they were requesting, is frankly outrageous.
I repeat, nine months to up to two years maximum for energy, manufacturing, and minerals projects.
I just think that is outrageous. I just think it's totally outrageous. We need more good-paying jobs in this country.
I don't understand this Administration's decision to sign an agreement just last month to fund critical mining projects in the Congo while at the same time they are denying permits for domestic mining here in this country.
I repeat, nine months to up to two years maximum for energy, manufacturing, and minerals projects.
The idea that the rail workers of this country who risk their safety in many cases, day in and day out, and certainly put their health on the line to provide for their families...could not have one additional sick day...is just, frankly…
Environmental Impact Statements are extremely cumbersome and take an awfully long time.





