Zach Schermele

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

And and there is nothing that motivates politicians, primarily members of Congress more

than hearing firsthand face-to-face concerns from their constituents in their districts.

So don't under underestimate the degree to which that could generate some movement in the coming months.

It totally does.

If you do you can do all of this hoop jumping in Congress and try to pass all sorts of legislation, but it if if it is subject to a presidential veto, that changes the political calculus.

And it it not only changes the political calculus because it it changes the math, but it also changes the politics of having

to potentially override a a veto, right?

I mean, a lot of lawmakers, Republicans, don't want to be seen as going against the president on anything.

So if there is significant legislation that passes both chambers, makes it to the president's desk, he vetoes it, um, you know, there could be conversations about it coming back to the hill and overriding a veto.

But but, you know, I think that there will certainly

Be reticent should that happen.

And, you know, I think that more consistent hill watchers might hear me say that and and think uh that it there is uh less of a likelihood of the president not paying a lot of attention to legislation that's moving forward.

But, you know, he is someone that has demonstrated pretty consistently that pretty uh notable things can be happening on the hill and he won't be uh always paying uh in.

attention uh to more of the fine details of the sausage making of the legislative process.

And, you know, we have seen that he is kind of in the same boat as House Speaker Mike Johnson with respect to um AI development and where things need to go.

You know, there are not insignificant number of Republicans who are basically saying that industry

Needs to be leading the way on this.

But it's it's interesting because at the same time, you have um these AI leaders, these these tech company executives who are basically begging for regulation.

I mean, they are posting online, doing interviews where they're saying we need independent oversight.

And that disparity between the rhetoric that's coming from

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