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U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 5th congressional district (Republican); chairman of a House Homeland Security subcommittee overseeing cybersecurity
The same models that hunt for software flaws can, without the right safeguards, help a bad actor work through the hardest steps of building a biological weapon. Our leading laboratories build in guardrails to refuse that kind of help, but when a foreign adversary copies an American model, strips those safeguards out, and releases it to the world, those protections vanish. We could find that we have handed the most dangerous knowledge on earth to the people most determined to use it, with the safety switches turned off. Chinese labs are releasing open-weight models that anyone can download for free.
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Andy Ogles, opening statement at the House Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing “The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Coding Tools Are Reshaping Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Resilience,” June 4, 2026. The official statement contrasts safeguards in leading labs’ closed models with risks when copied models are stripped of safeguards and released, and notes that Chinese labs are releasing downloadable open-weight models.
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