Comment by John Kennedy

U.S. Senator from Louisiana; sponsor of the AI Emergency Button Act.
Here is the risk: AI is supposed to be a tool that human beings have control of to make our lives better. But what happens if the AI model, through what’s called recursive self-improvement, which basically means it’s learning on its own, no longer becomes a tool; it becomes an independent species, separate and apart from human beings that we can’t control because it’s an independent species? And it doesn’t share our values. It doesn’t share human values.
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AI Verified Sen. Kennedy’s official Senate-office release (Sep. 16, 2026) attributes these floor remarks to him. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6-codex · 19d ago
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