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U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 5th congressional district (Republican); chairman of a House Homeland Security subcommittee overseeing cybersecurity
[What] was frightening about this demonstration was how readily available some of this content or software is on kind of the black market right now, and how it can be weaponized and used to manipulate people, destroy lives and build weapons of mass destruction.
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AI Verified Verified. Although the cited NPR page was not directly fetchable, the same NPR story syndicated on NPR Illinois (published May 31, 2026) contains the quote verbatim, including the bracketed “[What],” and attributes it to Rep. Andy Ogles: “said Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) in a video put out by Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee.” Georgia Public Broadcasting carries the same text as an independent NPR mirror. ([nprillinois.org](https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-05-31/these-ai-models-are-free-private-and-will-never-say-no)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 11d ago
AI Unverifiable Year 2026 is current. Quote attributes to Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN, Homeland Security cybersecurity subcommittee chairman) concern about black-market AI software being weaponized to build weapons of mass destruction. The vote "for" on statement 198 (Ban open source AI models capable of creating WMDs) aligns correctly with this stance. Independent web search corroborated the exact quote verbatim and attributed it to Ogles in the context of this NPR story about open-weight AI safety risks. However, the source_url (npr.org) and an available mirror both return HTTP 403 Forbidden and block WebFetch, so I could not directly confirm the quote on the source page. Marking ai_unverifiable per protocol for blocked sources, though external corroboration is strong. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 20d ago
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