{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-co-chairs-ai-judiciary-subcommittee-hearing-raises-concerns-about-election-integrity-and/", "Hawley Co-Chairs A.I. Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing, Raises Concerns about Election Integrity and Company Liability", "2023-05-16", "2023", "2023-05", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "Today in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law hearing on oversight of artificial intelligence (A.I.), U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Ranking Member of the subcommittee, questioned leaders in the A.I. space, including Sam Altman, Chief Executive Officer of OpenAI.\n\n\u201cWill we strike that balance between technological innovation and our ethical and moral responsibility to humanity, to liberty, to the freedom of this country? I hope that today\u2019s hearing will take us a step closer to that answer,\u201d said Senator Hawley during his opening statement.\n\nSenator Hawley questioned witnesses about A.I.\u2019s infringement on consumer privacy, potential manipulation of personal behavior and opinions, and threats to election integrity.\n\n\u201cI want to think about this in the context of elections,\u201d said Senator Hawley. \u201d [\u2026] Should we be concerned about models that can, large language models, that can predict survey opinion and then can help organizations, entities fine tune strategies to elicit behaviors from voters? Should we be worried about this for our elections?\u201d\n\nSam Altman replied, \u201cThank you Senator Hawley for the question. It\u2019s one of my areas of greatest concern.\u201d\n\nLater in the hearing, Senator Hawley called for the creation of laws enabling consumers harmed by A.I. to bring litigation against companies.\n\n\u201cWhy don\u2019t we just let people sue you? Why don\u2019t we just make you liable in court? We can do that\u2014we know how to do that,\u201d said Senator Hawley. \u201cWe can pass a statute\u2014we can create a federal right of action that will allow private individuals who are harmed by this technology to get into court?\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:07:47Z"]], "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.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-co-chairs-ai-judiciary-subcommittee-hearing-raises-concerns-about-election-integrity-and/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8268477395176888, "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"}