Senator Warren Calls for Pause in Advanced AI Development

Washington, D.C. – Today, in response to the growing concerns around the development of advanced AI, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement: “The future of artificial intelligence must be decided by the American people through their democratically elected representatives in government—not by a handful of CEOs and billionaire corporations. The recent calls by AI industry leaders to ‘pace the frontier’ are insufficient, and their suggestions that we must weaken antitrust protections in order to confront the AI threat are transparently self-serving. “Frontier AI models are currently a dangerous technology without the safeguards needed to protect people from serious harm. We should immediately press pause on the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe. We need to enforce the laws already on the books to hold AI companies accountable, and Congress must urgently pass legislation to put stronger guardrails in place before we have a cyberattack, economic crisis, or national security disaster facilitated by AI. The time to act is yesterday.” ###