Political debate over AI intensifies amid warnings about ‘catastrophic risk’

Photo: President Donald Trump with House Republicans and congressional leaders in the Oval Office – November 12, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok). Attribution: “P20251112DT-0415” by The White House via Flickr. United States Government Work Article by Jake Tapper and Aileen Graef. CNN – updated September 13, 2026.

The debate around artificial intelligence is ramping up in Washington, with Democratic lawmakers sounding alarms on the dangers they say the technology poses and Republican leaders suggesting those concerns are inflated and secondary to winning the AI race with China. Some Democratic lawmakers last week pressured House Speaker Mike Johnson to reconvene the chamber immediately to work on AI regulation, citing what they describe as the “catastrophic risk posed by advanced artificial intelligence.” But the […]

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