Brendan Steinhauser

Now, we may or may not buy that timeline, but they are sounding the alarm.

These are the people building the technology.

We had OpenAI just in the last week, people fleeing that company, leaving that company, saying they're not taking safety seriously.

They're not taking security seriously.

And so some folks who've left OpenAI and Anthropic, one of the other companies, have said,

the world is in peril.

They're literally going to go do something else with their lives because they're so concerned that we're on the wrong path here.

We've had questions, obviously, about the finance side of this, about whether there's an AI bubble or this circular financing that's creating all these potential problems in the economy.

So it's that combined with regular Americans.

I mean, I go and talk to people on the road all the time

And they are concerned about their jobs.

They're seeing these headlines.

They're seeing more and more people talk about this.

And then their friends who work in tech, their friends that work as software engineers or tech sales are seeing this happening to them right now.

So the problem is that white-collar work and then eventually blue-collar work is at grave peril right now.

And so the administration and Congress have to act right now to get this right to protect American workers.

They are.

And this idea that you'll hear more about, many of the audience members will hear about this recursive self-improvement.

That's kind of what you're alluding to there.

The idea that AIs are now going to be improving themselves.