Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Tuesday dismissed existential fears of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence, calling growing industry concerns "alarmism" and comparing them to warnings of climate catastrophe.
"When the president says, 'a hoax,' what he's referring to is, we've all seen this movie before," he said when asked about President Trump's recent comments dismissing regulation. "A catastrophe is created. The media gets spun up. Social media gets spun up. Everybody says we're all going to be — they literally said we're all going to be dead in 10 years."
The speaker argued that Congress was not equipped to regulate the AI industry and that, for now, he was in favor of self-policing.
"They can self-police. They can self-regulate. They don't need the government to tell them to slow it down. If they want to slow it down, they should," he said. "But we cannot have a moratorium on the development of AI, okay? Because then we will lose our edge to China and that has serious national security implications for every American family."
Speaker Johnson, however, said there are some things the government could do and that the next step should be to hold a meeting of AI leaders, top lawmakers and administration officials to discuss a path forward.
"I think you need independent auditors. I think you need transparency from the people who are developing this," he said. "I think there's some really important ideas that can be guardrails, but we've got to make sure this is done in the right way, so we don't lose America's advantage in the development of AI."
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