{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-kellys-new-ai-bill-puts-american-workers-first/", "ICYMI:\u00a0Kelly\u2019s\u00a0New AI Bill Puts American Workers First", "2026-09-23", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "AZ", "Mark Kelly", "K000377", "www.kelly.senate.gov", "markkelly", "https://www.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cWe could have a lot of job disruption, and for that we need a plan. It seems that everybody understands that except possibly the president and the people around him.\u201d\n\nIn case you missed it, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly joined CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper 360\u00ba to highlight the urgent need to act on AI to make sure it benefits all Americans, not just big companies. Kelly discussed his Make AI Work for Americans Act, legislation he will introduce Thursday to help ensure working Americans benefit from the changing economy.\n\nSen. Kelly speaks to Anderson Cooper.\n\nWatch the full conversation here. See key excerpts below:\n\nOn why we need to act on AI now\u2026\n\n\u201cDemocrats, Republicans, independents all think that this is getting to the point where we need to act and act soon. Even the CEOs of the AI companies, the frontier or the big companies that create these large language models, are asking for regulation.\n\n\u201cI think this is a competition with the Chinese, but that doesn\u2019t mean that we shouldn\u2019t have guardrails in place\u2026 As a former test pilot and astronaut, even the stuff that\u2019s low probability with a catastrophic result, you got to come up with some mitigation for that and try to prevent it from happening. And I think about this the same way, but for some reason, and I don\u2019t quite understand it yet, the president just wants us to go full speed, as fast as we possibly can, and don\u2019t consider the negative side of this. Hey, I want this to work. I think there\u2019s huge benefits for the American people. But at this point, especially on the job loss piece of this, I want to see these Big Tech companies chip in and I want to see the government put in the guardrails in place so we don\u2019t have a catastrophic outcome.\u201d\n\nOnhow his AI Horizon fund works\u2026\n\n\u201cThe centerpiece of this is the AI Horizon Fund, which will collect money from Big Tech in three ways with three different taxes: a usage tax, a digital advertising tax, and what\u2019s essentially an excess profits tax. And then that revenue can be applied so people who lose their jobs will have options on things that they could do. They could decide to go to community college and get additional training. They could go to national service program that would end in some kind of certification. They could get help starting a small business. There\u2019s also enhanced unemployment insurance as part of that, if somebody needs that.\n\n\u201cWe could have a lot of job disruption, and for that we need a plan. It seems that everybody understands that except possibly the president and the people around him.\u201d", 1, "2026-09-24T09:44:48Z", "2026-09-24T09:45:52Z"]], "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.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-kellys-new-ai-bill-puts-american-workers-first/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.3341281339526176, "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"}