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Official title: Artificial Intelligence (Executive Session)
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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, so let me comment on AI and Trump's comments on that.
which even its creators are saying is increasingly dangerous, but Donald Trump couldn't care less.
Trump says that he has that issue covered, that “the only control or `guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT.” Well, we don't have one so let's do something, Senators.
We know Trump is not going to step up to the plate here. He puts his head in the sand. He says there is no problem when every expert says there is a dramatic and dangerous problem that we should deal with.
a “hoax” or a “sick conspiracy.” Those aren't the words of someone with a high IQ, Donald Trump. The only thing that is sick is Trump's indifference to the legitimate, valid, strong concerns of the American people.
Trump's war in Iran. The President calls soaring fuel prices fake, even though they are above $4.30 a gallon.
Again, where is your IQ, Mr. President? Where is your perception of the world?
I don't know if it is delusion or deception, but it doesn't matter. Trump is completely out of touch with the American people, and Trump is dead wrong about AI.
interests or because of his mood of the day? He has done that time and time again. He has favored one company, one interest, over another because they suck up to him. They give him contributions, who knows what. But it is usually not on the merits, and it is often corrupt.
security of the American people? What are they doing? How are they doing it? Who are they favoring? These are all legitimate, important questions that must be answered.
classified briefing with the entire Senate immediately about the potential severe risks that unchecked AI development poses to our country. We all know about it.
frontier AI models, something they have been concealing from the public since announcing the framework months ago.
AI is something we can come together on in the Senate. I say that to my colleagues. Democrats and Republicans can come together. We deserve to know how this administration is handling this consequential issue facing the American people.
allegiance to Trump, it is now. The world is in danger, and Republicans are on the sidelines sucking their thumbs. It is time to get off the bench.
before. If you can believe it, it has been 3 years, almost to the day, since I convened the bipartisan AI Insight Forums. We brought together not just industry titans but leaders from across sectors—academia, civil society, labor—to steer the Senate to much needed action.
finding ourselves in today to prevent AI from getting on an unsustainable path that endangers our security, undermines the public's trust, jeopardizes American leadership.
And out of these forums came a bipartisan comprehensive roadmap. It was strong; it was bipartisan; and the roadmap was turned into a bipartisan package of bills that we came close to passing into law at the end of the last Congress until Republican leadership, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and an incoming Trump administration blocked it.
We had a chance to do this. We nearly had it, and we had good bipartisan support. And Trump comes in, Musk comes in and says don't do it, and now look where we are.
Congress, but, my Republican colleagues,
we can come together again to take action. The American people are demanding it.
Wedding of Donald Trump, Jr.
Mr. President, on the Trump family's Russia corruption—there is so much of it—on the same day Trump decided to put pressure on Ukraine rather than Russia by blaming Ukraine—not his disastrous Iran war—for high gas prices, we continue to see evidence that the Trump family is in Putin's pocket.
Putin footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars in wedding expenses for Donald Trump, Jr. Can you believe this? An oligarch of a country we oppose is paying for the wedding of the President's son. Have you ever heard anything like this—so corrupt, so venal, so endangering our national security?
And what did Donald Trump, Jr., say in his defense?
[S]ometimes a wedding gift is simply a wedding gift.
Not in this case, baby. You are dealing with a Russian oligarch, not just a cousin who is giving you a gift.
Well, I say to Donald Junior, who said “sometimes a wedding gift is simply a wedding gift,” sometimes, Donald Trump, Jr., a wedding gift is a bribe from a foreign autocrat. The oligarch dropped hundreds of thousands to put on a fireworks display, host an extravagant party, and rent out a private island for Donald Junior. But what we know he was really buying is not to have a good time at a wedding but access to the Trump family.
The corruption could not get any more shameless. The Trump family has already profited $4 billion off the Presidency this term alone. Did the Trumps really need a few hundred thousand more dollars? Is that what it takes for them to sell out America to the Russians?
The American people have had enough of Trump's corruption. Have Senate Republicans?