{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.gallego.senate.gov/news/press-releases/watch-gallego-calls-for-immediate-congressional-oversight-and-regulation-on-ai/", "WATCH: Gallego Calls for Immediate Congressional Oversight and Regulation on AI", "2026-09-14", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "AZ", "Ruben Gallego", "G000574", "www.gallego.senate.gov", "gallego", "https://www.gallego.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u2018This is more akin to Dr. Frankenstein telling us the monster is loose. Help me stop the monster.\u2019\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 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.\n\nWATCH: State of the Union with Jake Tapper\n\nOn the imminent danger of artificial intelligence: \u201cThis 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.\u201d\n\nOn the need of his proposed bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence: \u201cSpeaker Johnson is not meeting the moment. Trump\u2019s 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\u2019t just use this idea that if we do this, we\u2019re somehow going to lose to China because AI does not care once it becomes fully dangerous whether we are Chinese or American. That\u2019s the danger of this. Everyone\u2019s thinking about this in a way that is based on old tech and not what\u2019s going towards the future. This is why we need to get the people in the room.\n\n\u201cThe 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\u2019s going to go into place maybe three years from now. We don\u2019t have that time. Dr. Frankenstein is telling us the monster has escaped. Help us stop this.\u201d\n\nSee additional coverage below:", 1, "2026-09-15T09:50:21Z", "2026-09-15T09:52:05Z"]], "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.gallego.senate.gov/news/press-releases/watch-gallego-calls-for-immediate-congressional-oversight-and-regulation-on-ai/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.2768389899283648, "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"}