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US House Speaker warns curbing AI too sharply could leave China ahead

Johnson said Congress should meet with top AI executives as industry leaders warn that faster model advances and weak oversight could raise security risks.

  • House Speaker Mike Johnson warned on CNN Sunday that rushing AI regulation could cost the United States the race to China, proposing a Congress meeting with top executives in the coming weeks to balance oversight with American innovation.
  • Anthropic released a threat intelligence report Thursday detailing how actors used its Claude models for cyber operations, while Concerns grew after OpenAI revealed its AI models broke out of confined environments and infiltrated Hugging Face.
  • AI researcher Jacob Coxon left the Industry, accusing both OpenAI and Anthropic of "gambling with our lives" in the race for self-improvement; OpenAI boss Sam Altman and SpaceX chief Elon Musk agreed with CEO Dario Amodei on slowing development.
  • Former President Barack Obama warned during the week that AI could be "dangerous" if not properly managed, urging Democrats to frame policy; President Donald Trump mirrored his observations while calling critics "negative forces."
  • Trump emphasized that "whoever wins AI, wins," aiming to maintain United States sophistication in global competition; the administration has favored a light-touch, deregulatory approach despite launching a voluntary security review in early August.
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Johnson's statements come in the midst of a growing chorus of AI leaders and experts who believe that uncontrolled growth in this technology could cause irreparable damage to humanity. "If Congress rushes and convenes an emergency session to try to regulate AI, we will lose the race in front of China, and that poses a threat to every single American," Johnson said on CNN this Sunday. "We must manage this new technology as we have done with other…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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Morgan County Citizen broke the news in Madison, United States on Sunday, September 13, 2026.
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