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{"id":27105,"date":"2026-09-14T18:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/andy-kim-says-congress-shouldnt-trust-ai-companies-to-slow-their-own-development\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T18:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:34:47","slug":"andy-kim-says-congress-shouldnt-trust-ai-companies-to-slow-their-own-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/andy-kim-says-congress-shouldnt-trust-ai-companies-to-slow-their-own-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Kim says Congress shouldn\u2019t trust AI companies to slow their own development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The AI industry\u2019s promise to slow itself down is \u201cnot nearly enough,\u201d Sen. Andy Kim said Monday, calling for a binding federal framework and dismissing President Donald Trump\u2019s argument that new rules would hand the race to China.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/25648\" target=\"_blank\" data-person-id=\"25648\">Kim<\/a> (D-N.J.), who sits on the chamber\u2019s commerce committee negotiating AI legislation, told Blue Light News that relying on the \u201cvoluntary goodwill\u201d of AI companies to rein in their own technologies is unacceptable, given the potential societal risks involved. And he is not fully sold on a proposal to grant outside evaluators access to the labs developing groundbreaking AI technologies, which the AI company Anthropic <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/09\/12\/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-ai-safety-global-panic\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently said it would allow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really need a very specific regulatory framework when it comes to AI,\u201d Kim said in a phone interview. \u201cYes, embedding evaluators is certainly a part of that, but that is not going to be enough to address my concerns about where this technology is headed. We need much more clarity in terms of what level of standards we would want those evaluators to be upholding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kim\u2019s comments came after an artificial intelligence researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/anthropic-openai-researcher-jacob-coxon-warns-ai-could-kill-humans\/\" target=\"_blank\">dramatically resigned<\/a> last week with warnings of global destruction if unfettered development continues. He also spoke of the need to \u201cMythos-proof our society,\u201d referring to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/24\/anthropic-openai-mythos-what-to-know-00934668\" target=\"_blank\">powerful model<\/a> developed by Anthropic, saying that he\u2019s \u201cengaged with a lot of different elements of government\u201d to accomplish that goal but declining to elaborate what that might look like.<\/p>\n<p>As concerns over both AI development and data center construction grow throughout the country, there\u2019s been bipartisan momentum in Congress to rein in the industry, though the most prominent bill to do so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/09\/11\/klobuchar-thune-ai-safety-bill-faces-impasse-01073026\" target=\"_blank\">remains in limbo<\/a> with just a few weeks to go before an election-season recess. Kim said he\u2019s lately had \u201cgood, bipartisan conversations\u201d with senators about AI policies, and he\u2019s hopeful that the Senate\u2019s commerce committee will hold an AI markup in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, however, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/09\/14\/donald-trump-ai-regulation-pushback-01074230\" target=\"_blank\">emerged as a major impediment<\/a> to any potential progress in Congress. In a Truth Social post on Monday morning, Trump wrote that the \u201conly control or \u2018guardrails\u2019 that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT,\u201d referencing the need for the U.S. to remain ahead of China in the AI development race.<\/p>\n<p>Kim, though, argued that\u2019s a false choice: Putting AI regulations in place, he said, does not have to conflict with maintaining competitiveness with China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are not mutually exclusive,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I think that comment by Trump was wrong. We can find bipartisan support to show that there is a real and better way that we can do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AI industry\u2019s promise to slow itself down is \u201cnot nearly enough,\u201d Sen. Andy Kim said Monday, calling for a binding federal framework and dismissing President Donald Trump\u2019s argument that new rules would hand the race to China. Kim (D-N.J.), who sits on the chamber\u2019s commerce committee negotiating AI legislation, told Blue Light News that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}