{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.ernst.senate.gov/news/press-releases/ernst-america-cant-hit-pause-on-ai-while-china-charges-ahead", "Ernst: America Can\u2019t Hit Pause on AI While China Charges Ahead", "2026-09-30", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "Senate", "IA", "Joni Ernst", "E000295", "www.ernst.senate.gov", "ernst", "https://www.ernst.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, during a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Disaster Management hearing, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) praised how Super Intelligence (SI), also known as artificial intelligence, helps keep Americans safe while acknowledging Congress\u2019 responsibility to ensure proper guardrails are in place.\n\nErnst questioned Kurt Gaudette on how Congress can better empower SI developers and companies to collaborate to ensure we can deter and respond to cyber-attacks, emphasizing that \u201cAI has been so helpful in medical research and protecting our troops from drone swarms or missile attacks\u2026 so we need to keep moving forward. If we pause, we're not going to see China pause.\u201d\n\nWatch Ernst\u2019s questioning here.\n\nBackground:\n\nThe hearing followed President Trump\u2019s signing of an executive order focused on incorporating \u201cSuper Intelligence\u201d (SI) and recognizing the continued advancement of the technological frontier and the opportunities it presents for the American people.\n\nThe hearing examined the growing risks posed by increasingly capable SI systems, including SI agents acting beyond their intended instructions and the potential for hostile actors to use SI to target critical infrastructure, strategic industries, and government agencies.\n\nThe hearing featured testimony from:\n\nChris Painter, President of the Model Evaluation and Threat Research\n\nMarius Hobbhahn, Co-Founder and CEO of Apollo Research\n\nPaul Ohm, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center\n\nKurt Gaudette, Senior Vice President of Intelligence and Services at Dragos, Inc.\n\nDaniel Kokotajlo, Executive Director of the AI Futures Project\n\n###", 1, "2026-10-01T11:23:28Z", "2026-10-01T11:25:15Z"]], "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://www.ernst.senate.gov/news/press-releases/ernst-america-cant-hit-pause-on-ai-while-china-charges-ahead"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5941150486469269, "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"}