WATCH: Gallego Calls for Immediate Congressional Oversight and Regulation on AI

‘This is more akin to Dr. Frankenstein telling us the monster is loose. Help me stop the monster.’ WASHINGTON – In response to former Anthropic researcher quitting his role and warning of an industrywide rush to build AI systems that can improve themselves and, in turn, destroy humanity, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) has spoken out on the need for immediate congressional oversight . WATCH: State of the Union with Jake Tapper On the imminent danger of artificial intelligence: “This is not previous tech. Previous tech could not make a decision to kill us. When we turned on the internet it did not have autonomy. When we created the nuclear weapon, the nuclear weapon did not have the decision-making power to drop a nuclear weapon. AI has the capability and will have the capability to make decisions like that. This is more akin to Dr. Frankenstein telling us the monster is loose. Help me stop the monster.” On the need of his proposed bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence: “Speaker Johnson is not meeting the moment. Trump’s not meeting the moment. The Senate and Congress are not meeting the moment. We need to get together as fast as possible with the smartest people, with the skeptics, with the people that want to regulate, the people that want to actually deal with this, people that are going to figure out how to actually have the perfect balance. We can’t just use this idea that if we do this, we’re somehow going to lose to China because AI does not care once it becomes fully dangerous whether we are Chinese or American. That’s the danger of this. Everyone’s thinking about this in a way that is based on old tech and not what’s going towards the future. This is why we need to get the people in the room. “The way we are going about this is that we are hoping that some committee in the House or the Senate is just going to come together with some staffers and put together the framework that’s going to go into place maybe three years from now. We don’t have that time. Dr. Frankenstein is telling us the monster has escaped. Help us stop this.” See additional coverage below: New York Times: Top Lawmakers Agree A.I.’s Risks Are Rising but Say They Have No Quick Fix USA Today: House Speaker Johnson says Congress shouldn’t lead AI safety efforts The Hill: Gallego on AI leaders backing slowdown: ‘Akin to Dr. Frankenstein telling us “The monster is loose”’ KTAR News: Sen. Ruben Gallego calls for oversight on AI, says Trump administration ‘not meeting the moment’