The House of Representatives and the Senate returned on Monday after the Labor Day weekend, the Republican midterm convention and the Jewish High Holy Day of Rosh Hashanah. But the House will only be in session for a week, since House Speaker Mike Johnson canceled the final two weeks of the session before the midterms. This means there will be scant time for legislating.
Yet, this is all happening — or not happening — at a moment when many feel that Congress must act with haste. Last week, Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, resigned and posted a thread on X warning, “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” This came after rogue OpenAI agents hacked AI firm Hugging Face. Do not expect the Republican-controlled Congress to act.
Because President Donald Trump does not want any action. The president also continued his support for AI data centers despite pushback even from members of his own party. We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so,” he said.
Rather, Washington is set to try and vote on the Protect College Sports Act — which is why Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) appeared on ESPN’s College Gameday to be roundly booed — and potentially to vote on legislation on cryptocurrency known as the CLARITY Act. And Johnson seems to be falling into line.
Over the weekend, he told CBS’ Face the Nation that “some guardrails, some safety measures” might be needed, the United States should not “lose our edge in the global competition on this with China because that would be a national security threat.” Democrats are not as optimistic as Johnson. Many have found some stray Republicans who want to see some safeguards around AI. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) said.
The question is whether we will before more damage is done.” Trahan is the co-author, alongside Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.), of the FRONTIER Act, which would create a tiered system of regulations, have ongoing assessments and independent audits of AI developers. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) has a separate piece of legislation with Rep.
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