Senator Thom Tillis

We can't pretend like it didn't happen.

We have to figure out how to master it and be the best practice in executing it and dealing with all the potential negative consequences and job displacement.

I think the jury's still out on what the net job displacement's going to be.

Does it mean that we've got to put more money in education and retooling expertise around the needs of the AI future?

Probably, almost certainly, but we should resist it.

We should make sure that we get rid of the patchwork of laws that are being implemented at the state level that are impediments to our own indigenous innovation and AI, come up with rules of the road at a federal level, and just unleash the power of the U.S.

innovation economy to lead the world and get it right.

But for years, I've been trying to remind everyone of how critical we were of the GDPR, data privacy, data breach policies that the EU implemented.

They made mistakes.

They corrected some of them.

But then states started gold plating some of those policies, California and other ones, that are, again, impediments to our tech sector.

What we need are national – this is clearly interstate commerce.

We need to preempt these laws, make them better.

If we find a best practice, be instructed by that at some state level.

But we need to set that platform right, or the malign uses of AI are going to outpace our ability to stay up with them.

That's why I think it's so important.

I was the one –

The only one, actually.

99 members voted against that.

There was an amendment last year to try and preempt the AI laws at the state level, come up with a national standard.