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Comment by Josh Gottheimer

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U.S. Representative from New Jersey
While today's White House Executive Order represents a step in the right direction toward protecting America from national security risks, its purely voluntary nature lacks real teeth. [...] Powerful AI frontier models that exhibit dangerous capabilities, including cybersecurity risks and the potential to create novel bioweapons, must be shared with the government and relevant critical infrastructure entities before they are released to the public. [...] A purely voluntary framework means allowing AI to remain the Wild West.
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Mandate reporting of AI training runs above 10²⁶ FLOPs to a designated national or international authority

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AI Verified Checked: (1) Author attribution — Josh Gottheimer, U.S. Rep (NJ), Co-Chair of the House AI Commission; the source is his own official .house.gov statement, correct. (2) Quote content — WebFetch on source_url returned HTTP 403, but a web search corroborated the distinctive phrases verbatim ("purely voluntary nature lacks real teeth", "represents a step in the right direction toward protecting America") from the same official gottheimer.house.gov page. (3) Year 2026 — correct (statement dated June 2, 2026). (4) Vote alignment — statement "Mandate reporting of AI training runs above 10²⁶ FLOPs to a designated national or international authority", vote "for": Gottheimer argues a voluntary framework "lacks real teeth" and that dangerous frontier models "must be shared with the government...before they are released," which directly supports mandatory reporting, so "for" is correct. All checks pass. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 3d ago
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