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Comment by Hakeem Jeffries

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U.S. Representative from New York and House Democratic Leader.
We should take decisive action now so that we can slow down, as the CEOs have recently acknowledged, slow down the pace of development in order to protect the American people and ensure that AI is proceeding safely.
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Hakeem Jeffries, quoted in Donica Phifer, “Johnson calls for AI solutions but says Congress won't take the lead,” Axios, September 13, 2026.
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Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely
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