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U.S. Representative for California's 17th congressional district
If you’re creating an AI that is doing illegal things, you should either face liability or criminal sanction. That is what we need to protect humanity.
AI Verified (Sep 13, 2026)
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Rep. Ro Khanna, quoted in Rebecca Ellis, “California lawmakers urge criminal penalties, emergency legislation to rein in unchecked AI,” Los Angeles Times, September 13, 2026. The article reports Khanna's statement in a video posted to X supporting liability or criminal sanctions for creators of AI that does illegal things.
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AI Verified Los Angeles Times (Sept. 13, 2026) directly attributes the exact two-sentence wording to Rep. Ro Khanna in his X video. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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