{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://carson.house.gov/media/press-releases/carson-questions-witnesses-ai-safeguards-military-and-intelligence-systems", "Carson\u00a0Questions Witnesses on AI Safeguards\u00a0in Military and Intelligence Systems", "2026-09-23", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "House", "IN", "Andr\u00e9 Carson", "C001072", "carson.house.gov", "carson", "https://carson.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 Today, Congressman Andr\u00e9 Carson (IN-07) questioned witnesses at a first-of-its-kind hearing calling for a U.S.-China agreement to responsibly pace the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This hearing was held by Democrats on the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nThe hearing occurred after Speaker Mike Johnson canceled the previously scheduled legislative session, including votes and committee hearings, without taking action on AI. Congressman Carson previously joined 106 Democrats in calling on the speaker to hold a vote to address AI cybersecurity, surveillance, and rogue AI agent concerns.\n\n\u201cThis administration is moving quickly to put advanced AI into our military and intelligence systems,\u201d said Congressman Carson in today\u2019s hearing. \u201cSome decisions are simply too important to hand over to a machine\u2026As AI moves deeper into our national security systems, where should we draw a hard line and say a human has to make the decision?\u201d\n\nCongressman Carson also raised the alarm on the potential need for new regulatory frameworks for AI in cyberattacks and biological weapons. \u201cWe already have laws and international agreements dealing with cyberattacks and biological weapons,\u201d Congressman Carson said. \u201cBut we know that AI can make those threats easier to carry out and potentially much more dangerous.\u201d\n\nWitnesses included:\n\n\u00b7 Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto and Nobel Laureate\n\n\u00b7 Lt. Gen. John (Jack) N.T. Shanahan (USAF, Ret.), Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security\n\n\u00b7 Matt Sheehan, Senior Fellow, Asia Program and Co-Director, China AI Initiative, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\n\n\u00b7 Miriam Vogel, President and CEO, EqualAI\n\n\u00b7 Se\u00e1n \u00d3 h\u00c9igeartaigh, Professor and Director of the AI: Futures and Responsibilities Programme, University of Cambridge\n\nThe full hearing can be found here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-29T11:07:12Z", "2026-09-29T11:08:49Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://carson.house.gov/media/press-releases/carson-questions-witnesses-ai-safeguards-military-and-intelligence-systems"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3834312558174133, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}