00:00These proposals to regulate AI, there's always laws floating around.
00:04There isn't necessarily always lawmakers across the political spectrum talking about AI.
00:09That has changed in the last 48 hours.
00:15What has happened is that an anthropic researcher in the last couple of days accused anthropic
00:22and open AI, those are two of the biggest AI companies, of, quote, gambling with people's
00:28lives.
00:28They are, the accusations came on the platform X, and they went just, they spread very quickly.
00:35And that put some incentive or prompted some of these lawmakers to speak out in social
00:41media posts and in statements about regulating AI.
00:44There's been a couple of bills that have been floating around for a couple of weeks now,
00:47most notably one between Senate Majority Leader John Thune and then leading Democrat Amy Klobuchar.
00:53They've been negotiating some kind of bill on regulating AI risks.
00:57So I talked to Senator John Thune a couple of weeks ago.
01:00He was saying that the bill is intended to regulate, quote, catastrophic risks.
01:05But beyond that, we don't really have any concrete details.
01:08As of this morning, that bill was still being negotiated when I checked.
01:12What's different with this moment with the anthropic researcher and his accusations against open
01:17AI and anthropic is we're seeing lawmakers that haven't typically been very vocal on AI weigh in.
01:24It really seems to have spread across both parties, across both chambers of Congress,
01:30looking for some kind of regulation or looking for Congress to step up on AI.
01:35We haven't seen that those calls be so widespread when there's been other big AI incidents in the news.
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