Artificial intelligence

“Establish clear rules that protect rights and safety without hampering innovation or driving talent overseas”

“Responsible Artificial Intelligence Policy: Artificial Intelligence continues to upend our economy, our education system, and our world. If responsibly developed, AI has enormous potential to promote the common good and usher in a new era of American technological leadership. At the same time, it presents severe challenges on many fronts, from job loss to wealth concentration to disinformation to energy and water use to national security. Congress must develop a policy framework that promotes and champions America’s AI leadership and encourages responsible AI development to create good-paying jobs, protect the environment, keep kids safe, and ensure that AI promotes prosperity for the working class, not just the wealthy few.”

“I'll also prioritize policies that keep people at the center of this technology: funding for workers navigating an AI-driven job market, oversight to catch and correct bias in AI systems, and firm limits on how AI is deployed in sensitive areas like healthcare and social media, particularly involving kids.”

“We should do everything we can to get the benefits of AI – from new and faster cures for disease to less time wasted – without massive lay-offs, letting ourselves be helpless in the face of algorithms that addict our kids to AI-created content that makes it hard to know truth from lies, or a data center buildout that drives up electricity costs for families. We need guardrails. And we need to protect workers.”

“Congress should act quickly to establish a federal framework for AI that includes clear standards for transparency and testing. That will require increased investment in the Center for AI Standards and Innovation to ensure that the federal government has the capacity to test & evaluate models for safety and alignment.”

“Congress should also take action to maintain our international lead in AI development, because winning the AI race doesn't mean running it without rules, it means being the country that writes them.”

“Left unregulated and unchecked, corporations will continue to exploit our weak regulations at the expense of safety, security, and American jobs. We need leaders in Congress willing to put guardrails on this technology.”

“She will be a leader in Congress in advancing safety standards and preparing the workforce for its disruption to our economy.”

“I also support commonsense AI safeguards to protect children interacting with chat bots and make sure the newest models don’t pose major risks to our cybersecurity.”

“This kind of technology will be transformative for humanity with potential for incredible strides in health and research, but it must be strictly regulated to protect American jobs and maintain trust amongst deepfakes and misinformation.”

“This cannot continue to be a race to the bottom as the richest people in society make robots that could ultimately end humanity, as they’re now talking about, while the rest of us have to deal with these hulking data centers in our backyard raising our utility rates and destroying our water. We can do better, it means regulation, and we needed that regulation yesterday, so the best we can do is tomorrow.”

“AI shouldn’t be able to deny you healthcare. It shouldn’t be able to deny you a job. It shouldn’t be able to fire you. It shouldn’t be able to fire a weapon. There are things that we should not be using AI to do, and we collectively have to decide that we need public oversight so that all of this technology is not being created for the interests of a few against the well-being of the many.”

“Further, the speed and lack of transparency with which these technologies are being developed opens the door to serious risks that powerful AI may fall into the wrong hands or escape human control altogether. That’s why I support legislation to create guardrails around when, how, and for what purposes AI is deployed.”

“And to address the security risks, I believe we must develop clear “rules of the road” for AI development that governs which hands this technology falls into and requires us to better test and understand the models being developed.”

“The advent of powerful artificial intelligence models is perhaps the most pressing issue facing our country. These technologies have the potential to concentrate an incredible amount of power in the hands of a few unelected executives, and Congress needs to act with urgency to pass commonsense oversight and regulation of AI companies to ensure our privacy, our children, and the future of our economy are protected as the technology develops.”

“Rein in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Companies. This technology has the potential to pose an existential risk to our economy and to humanity itself. This is one of the most pressing issues that our country needs to face, and we need to create federal oversight and regulation of this industry now!”

“Strict Federal Oversight of technologies with the potential to pose an existential risk to our economy and to humanity.”

“This includes setting clear guidelines, standards, and rules of the road for the use of AI and emerging digital assets that establish long-term certainty and allow critical industries to grow, while also putting in place effective and fair oversight and protections for Colorado consumers and workers.”

“Artificial Intelligence has already begun to revolutionize every aspect of our lives, just like electricity did a century ago. We can't afford to let the development of this technology continue without the input of everyday Americans. AI already touches healthcare, education, jobs, and even justice. If we democratize it and ensure its development is transparent, equitable, and publicly accountable, we can unlock its potential to solve massive problems. That means open access research, worker protections against automation, and strong oversight to prevent discrimination, exploitation, and surveillance. AI is built on generations of human knowledge and creativity. It’s only right that it should be developed to serve the public good.”

“Responsible Artificial Intelligence Policy: Artificial Intelligence continues to upend our economy, our education system, and our world. If responsibly developed, AI has enormous potential to promote the common good and usher in a new era of American technological leadership. At the same time, it presents severe challenges on many fronts, from job loss to wealth concentration to disinformation to energy and water use to national security. Congress must develop a policy framework that promotes and champions America’s AI leadership and encourages responsible AI development to create good-paying jobs, protect the environment, keep kids safe, and ensure that AI promotes prosperity for the working class, not just the wealthy few.”

“I'll also prioritize policies that keep people at the center of this technology: funding for workers navigating an AI-driven job market, oversight to catch and correct bias in AI systems, and firm limits on how AI is deployed in sensitive areas like healthcare and social media, particularly involving kids.”

“We should do everything we can to get the benefits of AI – from new and faster cures for disease to less time wasted – without massive lay-offs, letting ourselves be helpless in the face of algorithms that addict our kids to AI-created content that makes it hard to know truth from lies, or a data center buildout that drives up electricity costs for families. We need guardrails. And we need to protect workers.”

“Connecticut has recently enacted landmark legislation to protect our kids, workers, and whistleblowers. Congress should build on these policies.”

“I also support commonsense AI safeguards to protect children interacting with chat bots and make sure the newest models don’t pose major risks to our cybersecurity.”

“Against data centers raising costs, guardrails on AI to protect our kids and jobs.”

“The advent of powerful artificial intelligence models is perhaps the most pressing issue facing our country. These technologies have the potential to concentrate an incredible amount of power in the hands of a few unelected executives, and Congress needs to act with urgency to pass commonsense oversight and regulation of AI companies to ensure our privacy, our children, and the future of our economy are protected as the technology develops.”

“Technology companies should play an important role in building safeguards, especially for young people. But we cannot rely on them alone. Artificial intelligence is advancing too quickly and shaping too many parts of our economy and society to leave its rules entirely to private companies.”

“We must also advance strict regulation as it pertains to the safety of kids, teens, and vulnerable populations, ensuring chatbots and other AI tools are built with safety top of mind.”

“Regulate AI Safety for All: Congress has been too slow to protect against the potential dangers of new AI technologies. Randy will fight to protect workers, families, and children from its risks.”

“Congress should act quickly to establish a federal framework for AI that includes clear standards for transparency and testing. That will require increased investment in the Center for AI Standards and Innovation to ensure that the federal government has the capacity to test & evaluate models for safety and alignment.”

“This is where we are with frontier AI right now, which is why we need to strengthen our export controls so advanced computer chips don’t fall into the wrong hands. And we need to treat the theft of frontier AI models like a national security threat by requiring labs to strengthen their security to government-grade standards.”

“I also support commonsense AI safeguards to protect children interacting with chat bots and make sure the newest models don’t pose major risks to our cybersecurity.”

“Mandatory Interpretability Standards: It’s not enough to know what the AI said if we can’t understand why it said it. We need mandatory interpretability standards that clarify AI decisionmaking.”

“Mandatory Behavioral Red-Teaming: Independent adversarial testing for deception, manipulation, and coercion before deployment.”

“Independent Safety Testing Agency: We need an FDA-style agency that evaluates frontier models before deployment.”

“Biosecurity Requirements: Mandatory biosecurity red-teaming, coordinated with the CDC, NIH, and FEMA, with restrictions on models that meaningfully assist bioweapons development.”

“Self-acceleration Guardrails: AI used to build or improve other AI must face the same safety review as the models it produces. And limits must be placed on the capacity for agents to produce other agents.”

“Under Abdul’s plan we would establish an independent, FDA-style agency that evaluates the safety of AI models before their deployment.”

“We need to act, and we need to act now. So, we’ve also been calling for a pause on any of this frontier AI research until we can assure that this is being done safely.”

“At an absolute minimum, I’m calling for a pause in AI frontier development. We need to put an end to any further AI development until we have guardrails in place that ensure all risks to human safety are eliminated.”

“Pause Frontier AI Now: There’s no greater marker of how broken our political system is than how this has somehow not happened yet. Freeze the training and release of the most powerful AI systems until real safety rules and enforcement exists. Independent scientists must certify safety before the pause lifts, and new AI data centers wait too.”

“Completely Ban Artificial Superintelligence or Recursive Self-Improvement: Permanently prohibit any AI that outthinks humans across most tasks or could escape human control. Toward that end, we need to address the risk that this happens without our knowing it. That means banning recursive self-improvement, the process by which AI itself takes control of AI frontier research, creating a self-reinforcing doom loop that leads down the path of superintelligence. We also need to heed the blinking red lights: AI resisting shutdown, deceiving human overseers, or helping build weapons of mass destruction. Funding, hoarding or releasing such systems should be barred, and developers must prove their AI is safe, just like the government does for nuclear weapons or new drugs.”

“Give Us an AI Kill Switch: Developers must be able to slow, suspend, or shut down their most powerful systems, and cloud and data-center operators must cut access on a lawful order. Bipartisan legislation already backs part of this. There must be regular drills to prove it works, allowing regulators to protect Americans from dangerous AI systems gone rogue.”

“Mandatory Breach Reporting: Whenever an AI system escapes its test environment, gains access it was never given, or deceives its testers, the developer must be required to alert the government within 24 hours, and the public must get a summary. Regulators should receive the full logs, which no one should be able to delete, and hiding a breach should be a crime. To make breaches rare, frontier models must be built and tested on physically isolated, air-gapped systems, with independent teams trying to break them out first, and internal use should count as model release.”

“Independent Audits: Outside experts test frontier AI before release. Even leading AI companies now accept this.”

“Create an AI kill switch to protect Americans from dangerous AI systems gone rogue.”

“And to address the security risks, I believe we must develop clear “rules of the road” for AI development that governs which hands this technology falls into and requires us to better test and understand the models being developed.”

“This includes clear safety testing standards for frontier models; liability and incident reporting standards; compute controls, including “know your customer” requirements for compute providers; and the creation of an independent technical agency with real enforcement power, like to the Food & Drug Administration, for AI.”

“Rein in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Companies. This technology has the potential to pose an existential risk to our economy and to humanity itself. This is one of the most pressing issues that our country needs to face, and we need to create federal oversight and regulation of this industry now!”

“Strict Federal Oversight of technologies with the potential to pose an existential risk to our economy and to humanity.”

“Micah is the only candidate for Congress who has consistently supported legislation to regulate AI — not just on the issue of catastrophic risk, but also on the use of AI in hiring decisions, in lending decisions, in state government, and in the classroom.”

“Hold AI Companies Accountable: Families deserve strong protections, real accountability, and a fair shot. That's why I support policies that ensure AI companies are not above the law. That includes requiring large AI firms to report critical safety incidents in a timely manner, requiring independent safety reviews before major model releases, implementing protections for whistleblowers, holding AI firms that lie to the government about safety practices or infringe on privacy rights accountable, and requiring notice before AI-driven layoffs at large employers.”

“Guard against catastrophic risk from AI.”

“Pass federal AI transparency and safety requirements so the largest AI developers must publish safety frameworks, disclose critical incidents to federal authorities, and be honest about the catastrophic risks their models could pose — including mass casualty events, attacks on critical infrastructure, and the development of biological or chemical weapons.”

“Those transparency requirements must build on California’s SB 53 — a law Scott Wiener passed — to require public disclosure of complete model specs. AI labs should have the ability to redact truly sensitive trade secrets, but federal regulators will have the authority to review any material redacted from the public disclosure of the public model.”

“But transparency is not enough – developers need to be held to minimum safety standards just like we have in every other safety-critical industry, and independent third parties should verify their compliance with those standards. Every major lab has already promised to protect the public from catastrophic risks. It's past time to put those promises into law.”

“Those safety standards should be backed by steep fines for labs that fail to follow safety standards. If labs repeatedly and willfully violate established safety standards, courts should have injunctive authority to stop development until the labs come into compliance.”

“SB 1047 (2024): The Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Systems Act — required developers of the most powerful AI models to conduct pre-deployment safety testing, plan for catastrophic risks including mass casualty events and critical infrastructure attacks, and accept liability for harms caused by their systems. Passed the California legislature 32–1 before being vetoed by Governor Newsom. Sparked the most consequential national conversation about AI governance any state bill has ever generated.”

“SB 53 (2025): The Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act — California's first enacted frontier AI safety law, requiring companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind to publish safety frameworks, report critical incidents to state authorities, and protect employees who raise concerns about catastrophic risks. Also established CalCompute, a public cloud computing cluster within the University of California system. Signed into law by Governor Newsom after Scott fought for it through two full legislative sessions.”

“AI No-Gos: AI may not deny medical care, autonomously fire weapons, conduct warrantless surveillance, replace human oversight in life-or-death decisions, or make hiring or firing decisions.”

“Implementing AI No-Gos that ban denying medical care, autonomously firing weapons, conducting warrantless surveillance, or replacing human oversight in life-or-death decisions.”

“Establish public ownership of frontier AI labs and implement strict AI No-Gos, including a ban on autonomous weapons and warrantless surveillance.”

“The advent of powerful artificial intelligence models is perhaps the most pressing issue facing our country. These technologies have the potential to concentrate an incredible amount of power in the hands of a few unelected executives, and Congress needs to act with urgency to pass commonsense oversight and regulation of AI companies to ensure our privacy, our children, and the future of our economy are protected as the technology develops.”

“Artificial Intelligence has already begun to revolutionize every aspect of our lives, just like electricity did a century ago. We can't afford to let the development of this technology continue without the input of everyday Americans. AI already touches healthcare, education, jobs, and even justice. If we democratize it and ensure its development is transparent, equitable, and publicly accountable, we can unlock its potential to solve massive problems. That means open access research, worker protections against automation, and strong oversight to prevent discrimination, exploitation, and surveillance. AI is built on generations of human knowledge and creativity. It’s only right that it should be developed to serve the public good.”

“Regulate AI and surveillance by corporations and government”

“Ultimately, the United States will need a clear national framework for AI governance — one that protects safety, privacy and transparency while still encouraging innovation. A patchwork of state-by-state rules will not be enough for a technology that operates across borders and affects every American community.”

“Hold AI Companies Accountable: Families deserve strong protections, real accountability, and a fair shot. That's why I support policies that ensure AI companies are not above the law. That includes requiring large AI firms to report critical safety incidents in a timely manner, requiring independent safety reviews before major model releases, implementing protections for whistleblowers, holding AI firms that lie to the government about safety practices or infringe on privacy rights accountable, and requiring notice before AI-driven layoffs at large employers.”

“Legislation that requires users to opt-in to generative AI instead of imposing it on users without their consent, and obtain their consent before collecting data to train models or conduct surveillance.”

“Severe Criminal Penalties for Corporate AI Abuse: Executives who recklessly break the rules should face criminal penalties with possible prison time. Companies should face the loss of their charters and assets. Lying to regulators should be a crime, executives must sign safety reports under penalty of perjury, and hiding a danger or retaliating against a whistleblower should carry real penalties too.”

“Establish severe criminal penalties for corporations and individuals abusing AI for malicious purposes.”

“This includes clear safety testing standards for frontier models; liability and incident reporting standards; compute controls, including “know your customer” requirements for compute providers; and the creation of an independent technical agency with real enforcement power, like to the Food & Drug Administration, for AI.”

“Holding Big Tech Corporations Accountable and Putting Safeguards on AI”

“And for the AI images and content these data centers produce? I’ll require companies to build guardrails, and I’ll fight to create public-interest safety oversight agencies for these groups and to establish legal causes of action to hold corporations accountable.”

“Hold AI Companies Accountable: Families deserve strong protections, real accountability, and a fair shot. That's why I support policies that ensure AI companies are not above the law. That includes requiring large AI firms to report critical safety incidents in a timely manner, requiring independent safety reviews before major model releases, implementing protections for whistleblowers, holding AI firms that lie to the government about safety practices or infringe on privacy rights accountable, and requiring notice before AI-driven layoffs at large employers.”

“As your representative in Congress, Claire will fight to hold major technology corporations accountable, protect our workforce from the harms of AI, and ensure that new technologies benefit communities, not just corporate executives.”

“Those safety standards should be backed by steep fines for labs that fail to follow safety standards. If labs repeatedly and willfully violate established safety standards, courts should have injunctive authority to stop development until the labs come into compliance.”

“SB 1047 (2024): The Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Systems Act — required developers of the most powerful AI models to conduct pre-deployment safety testing, plan for catastrophic risks including mass casualty events and critical infrastructure attacks, and accept liability for harms caused by their systems. Passed the California legislature 32–1 before being vetoed by Governor Newsom. Sparked the most consequential national conversation about AI governance any state bill has ever generated.”

“The federal government should never take the power to decide where a data center gets built out of the hands of the residents who have to live near them. I oppose all legislation that hampers local control, like the ten-year ban on state AI regulation Ryan Mackenzie voted for in the One Big Beautiful Bill.”

“Hands Off State Laws: No weak federal law should block states from protecting their people more strongly.”

“And I oppose efforts to pre-empt state action without federal legislation in place.”

“Defend state authority to regulate independently of federal overreach, including on AI, and oppose federal preemption of state civil rights and safety law”

“Keep states in the fight. Defend California's authority to regulate AI and oppose federal preemption of state safety and civil rights rules”

“In the absence of a robust federal framework, states should be able to regulate AI based on the needs of their communities.”

“Block Big Tech's preemption gambit.”

“The House passed a ten-year moratorium on state AI regulation — a brazen giveaway to the industry that would strip every level of government of the ability to act while Congress does nothing. Scott will fight that preemption and defend states' right to govern when Washington won't.”

“Congress should act quickly to establish a federal framework for AI that includes clear standards for transparency and testing. That will require increased investment in the Center for AI Standards and Innovation to ensure that the federal government has the capacity to test & evaluate models for safety and alignment.”

“Independent Safety Testing Agency: We need an FDA-style agency that evaluates frontier models before deployment.”

“Under Abdul’s plan we would establish an independent, FDA-style agency that evaluates the safety of AI models before their deployment.”

“We also think that we need a public agency focused directly on the safety of AI, and there need to be AI no-go’s.”

“A Cabinet-Level, Independent AI Safety Agency: One agency with the power to inspect labs, block releases, and order a pause or command a shutdown, built to stand up to any billionaire. Danger found in testing should trigger action automatically, any exemption should be made public, a scientific board should be chosen outside the agency to manage its governance, and industry fees should fund it. Its officials should never be allowed to cash in on the companies they regulate.”

“Create a Cabinet-level independent AI watchdog agency.”

“This includes clear safety testing standards for frontier models; liability and incident reporting standards; compute controls, including “know your customer” requirements for compute providers; and the creation of an independent technical agency with real enforcement power, like to the Food & Drug Administration, for AI.”

“And for the AI images and content these data centers produce? I’ll require companies to build guardrails, and I’ll fight to create public-interest safety oversight agencies for these groups and to establish legal causes of action to hold corporations accountable.”

“Create a federal regulatory body to oversee AI safety and security, overseen by civilian sectors of government.”

“In Congress, he'll fight to restore and expand federal investment in AI safety science, so that the government — not just the companies building these systems — has the independent expertise to evaluate and govern them.”

“International Cooperation: We must re-engage the Bletchley framework and global AI Safety Institute network to advocate for a binding compute-threshold treaty with”

“Pursuit of a broad multilateral safety dialogue on catastrophic risk, modeled on Cold War nuclear verification cooperation.”

“International Public Cooperation and Governance Boards: We should negotiate a US-China treaty to pause and ban superintelligence, modeled on the Cold War deal in which Reagan and Gorbachev eliminated a class of nuclear missiles through inspections. A verification board would count chips and data centers, a scientific panel would share threat assessments, and a 24-hour hotline would flag incidents. Access to American chips and cloud services should be conditioned on signing and complying, and we should tighten chip export controls now.”

“No AI in Nuclear Command and Control: Humans, and only humans, should decide whether to use nuclear weapons. That is already US policy: Biden and Xi agreed to it in 2024. We must make it permanent, cover early warning and decision support, keep frontier AI out of the chain, and get every nuclear nation to sign on.”

“Cooperate with partners and experts across the globe to minimize artificial general intelligence- and superintelligence-related risks, including through potential binding international treaties.”

“The US needs to lead the way in creating binding international agreements that establish a global AI safety regime as we do with many other dangerous technologies, such as those used for biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons and energy technology.”

“We can have disagreements with China — and protect American interests — without unnecessarily escalating to the point of conflict. Indeed, the U.S. and China have a solemn responsibility to collaborate on the major challenges confronting our planet, including climate change, AI risk, pandemics, economic stability, and avoiding catastrophic wars.”

“Connecticut has recently enacted landmark legislation to protect our kids, workers, and whistleblowers. Congress should build on these policies.”

“Severe Criminal Penalties for Corporate AI Abuse: Executives who recklessly break the rules should face criminal penalties with possible prison time. Companies should face the loss of their charters and assets. Lying to regulators should be a crime, executives must sign safety reports under penalty of perjury, and hiding a danger or retaliating against a whistleblower should carry real penalties too.”

“Protect Whistleblowers: Insiders who sound the alarm should get legal protection, back pay, and rewards.”

“Abdul’s plan also calls for creating AI whistleblower protections, implementing a national AI safety emergency plan, and requiring mandatory breach auditing of all AI systems.”

“Hold AI Companies Accountable: Families deserve strong protections, real accountability, and a fair shot. That's why I support policies that ensure AI companies are not above the law. That includes requiring large AI firms to report critical safety incidents in a timely manner, requiring independent safety reviews before major model releases, implementing protections for whistleblowers, holding AI firms that lie to the government about safety practices or infringe on privacy rights accountable, and requiring notice before AI-driven layoffs at large employers.”

“Protect AI whistleblowers — the engineers and researchers inside these companies who see real risks firsthand — by creating federal protections so they can report safety concerns without fear of retaliation or career destruction.”

“SB 53 (2025): The Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act — California's first enacted frontier AI safety law, requiring companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind to publish safety frameworks, report critical incidents to state authorities, and protect employees who raise concerns about catastrophic risks. Also established CalCompute, a public cloud computing cluster within the University of California system. Signed into law by Governor Newsom after Scott fought for it through two full legislative sessions.”

“Establish clear rules that protect rights and safety without hampering innovation or driving talent overseas”

“This includes setting clear guidelines, standards, and rules of the road for the use of AI and emerging digital assets that establish long-term certainty and allow critical industries to grow, while also putting in place effective and fair oversight and protections for Colorado consumers and workers.”

“Ultimately, the United States will need a clear national framework for AI governance — one that protects safety, privacy and transparency while still encouraging innovation. A patchwork of state-by-state rules will not be enough for a technology that operates across borders and affects every American community.”

“I'll also prioritize policies that keep people at the center of this technology: funding for workers navigating an AI-driven job market, oversight to catch and correct bias in AI systems, and firm limits on how AI is deployed in sensitive areas like healthcare and social media, particularly involving kids.”

“AI No-Gos: AI may not deny medical care, autonomously fire weapons, conduct warrantless surveillance, replace human oversight in life-or-death decisions, or make hiring or firing decisions.”

“AI shouldn’t be able to deny you healthcare. It shouldn’t be able to deny you a job. It shouldn’t be able to fire you. It shouldn’t be able to fire a weapon. There are things that we should not be using AI to do, and we collectively have to decide that we need public oversight so that all of this technology is not being created for the interests of a few against the well-being of the many.”

“Implementing AI No-Gos that ban denying medical care, autonomously firing weapons, conducting warrantless surveillance, or replacing human oversight in life-or-death decisions.”

“Micah is the only candidate for Congress who has consistently supported legislation to regulate AI — not just on the issue of catastrophic risk, but also on the use of AI in hiring decisions, in lending decisions, in state government, and in the classroom.”

“This kind of technology will be transformative for humanity with potential for incredible strides in health and research, but it must be strictly regulated to protect American jobs and maintain trust amongst deepfakes and misinformation.”

“Protect artists and creators from AI-driven copyright infringement through the TRAIN Act and the NO FAKES Act.”

“This is where we are with frontier AI right now, which is why we need to strengthen our export controls so advanced computer chips don’t fall into the wrong hands. And we need to treat the theft of frontier AI models like a national security threat by requiring labs to strengthen their security to government-grade standards.”

“Compute Controls and “Know Your Customer” Requirements: We don’t sell nuclear centrifuges without knowing the buyer. Similarly, chip access must be regulated and traceable on national and international markets.”

“International Public Cooperation and Governance Boards: We should negotiate a US-China treaty to pause and ban superintelligence, modeled on the Cold War deal in which Reagan and Gorbachev eliminated a class of nuclear missiles through inspections. A verification board would count chips and data centers, a scientific panel would share threat assessments, and a 24-hour hotline would flag incidents. Access to American chips and cloud services should be conditioned on signing and complying, and we should tighten chip export controls now.”

“This includes clear safety testing standards for frontier models; liability and incident reporting standards; compute controls, including “know your customer” requirements for compute providers; and the creation of an independent technical agency with real enforcement power, like to the Food & Drug Administration, for AI.”

“Ultimately, the United States will need a clear national framework for AI governance — one that protects safety, privacy and transparency while still encouraging innovation. A patchwork of state-by-state rules will not be enough for a technology that operates across borders and affects every American community.”

“Today, U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed announced AI Under Democracy, a comprehensive AI policy platform that would bring the emerging technology into the hands of the people through democratic ownership and governance while ensuring responsible use.”

“Earlier this year, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act to transfer 50% equity from the largest AI companies into public hands. The El-Sayed campaign proposes to take that one step further to give Americans a seat at the table to determine the future of this transformational technology, protect American jobs, and establish guardrails to keep us safe and ultimately benefit everyone, not just tech CEOs.”

“Abdul is the only candidate in the Michigan Senate race to support public ownership of AI, and one of the only U.S. Senate candidates to do so nationwide. Notably, he is the first to propose public control of AI.”

“Placing AI under democratic control is a critical step to keeping our our democracy intact and our economy healthy.”

“Now, we’re putting forward a plan to bring AI Under Democracy – guardrails and a roadmap for AI development with one goal in mind: to bring the most powerful technology in human history under human democratic control.”

“Mandatory Public Benefit Charters: All frontier AI labs must be chartered as public benefit corporations, legally bound to balance public interest against profit.”

“Democratic Board Control: 50%+1 of board seats at frontier AI companies must be publicly appointed or democratically elected, not chosen by shareholders.”

“AI was built on our data and our labor; we should own a piece of it. Senator Bernie Sanders’s American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would transfer 50% equity from the largest AI companies into public hands. I support that effort and propose to take it one step further because Americans deserve a seat at the table.”

“Under Abdul’s plan, a majority of the board seats of frontier AI companies must be either publicly appointed, or democratically elected.”

“[We] are seeing the pace of technological development outpace the pace of safety. If you had public oversight over this, in the form of democratically elected or appointed members of at least 50% of all of these public trust corporations, you would imagine that they’d act far more focused on what is in the public good rather than what is for the private benefit of a few billionaires.”

“Chartering all frontier AI companies as public benefit corporations with the majority of board members being democratically appointed, not chosen by shareholders”

“Divesting all frontier AI labs from the Big Tech giants like Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft. I called for public ownership—with 50% of equity owned by the American people—and an AI dividend.”

“Establish public ownership of frontier AI labs and implement strict AI No-Gos, including a ban on autonomous weapons and warrantless surveillance.”

“Artificial intelligence is here, brought to us by tech billionaire oligarchs who assure us it will make every human obsolete. They think they can replace critical human decisionmaking with machines. They’re wrong.”

“While more capable machines hold real promise in improving our lives, unregulated, they also threaten to steal our jobs, hijack our minds, worsen our isolation, and harm our children.”

“The point of our technology ought to be to increase the power we have over our lives—not to take it away. AI companies are terrified of regulation because many of them want to use their product to try and replace and control us.”