Zach Schermele

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The Excerpt · AI insiders warn of danger. Will Congress act? · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

That is a very good question.

There is an extremely tight schedule on Capitol Hill that that both the House and the Senate are facing.

I mean, the House is only in a couple days this week and then they're gone, right?

So the chance of actual legislation being passed and then signed into law by the president before the midterm elections, I think, is honestly extremely low.

But that doesn't mean that significant steps couldn't be taken, right?

That legislation can't be introduced, that the first step often when more significant pieces of legislation are going to start to move forward is senators and members of Congress just learning more about the technology, right?

And there are a decent number of them that do not have a good understanding of this.

Senator Tom Tillis, the Republican from North Carolina who's retiring, said to reporters uh the other day that he doesn't think a lot of senators can uh know the first letter uh in AI.

So, you know, I think a significant step, right, would be for them to start to learn more about it.

Certainly the ones who who are not uh as much of experts about the technology.

And that's important, right?

Mm.

So the Senate's gonna be in for a couple more weeks and then they're gone from

Most of October, both chambers before the midterms.

I think if we see any more significant action, it could potentially come in in the lame duck and the period between the midterms and uh when um uh Congress turns over in January.

So the House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday called the Rate Payer Protection Act, which would encourage uh state utility regulators to uh consider implementing rules that would protect regular American consumers from seeing their energy bills, their electricity bills rise as a result.

Results of hyperscale data centers being created near their neighborhoods.

There are a lot of Republicans who say that it's a significant step and that it sort of walks a fine line, uh, strikes the right balance between needing to be at the frontier of AI competitiveness as a country and as a workforce.

And implementing some important guardrails.

But there are lots of Democrats who say that that piece of legislation does not go nearly far enough to protect Americans from potentially seeing their costs rise as a result of these really energy-sucking data centers that are being built across the country and that a lot of communities have rejected.

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