Sen. Ruben Gallego: Warnings From AI Insiders “Akin To Dr. Frankenstein Telling Us, The Monster Is Loose, Help Me”
Arizona Democrat Sen. Ruben Gallego compared warnings from AI industry insiders to Dr. Frankenstein during an appearance Sunday morning on CNN. “This is more akin to Dr. Frankenstein telling us, ‘The monster is loose. Help me stop the monster,'” he said about warnings from “whistleblowers” and Anthropic founder Dario Amodei. “This isn’t previous tech. Previous tech could not make a decision to kill us, right? When we turned on the internet, it did not have autonomy, right? Gallego told CNN. “When we created a nuclear weapon, the nuclear weapon did not have the decision-making power to drop a nuclear weapon. AI has the capability and will have the capability to make a decision like that.”
GALLEGO: I heard the speaker talk about previous tech. This isn’t previous tech. Previous tech could not make a decision to kill us, right? If you — when we turned on the Internet, it did not have autonomy, right? When we created a nuclear weapon, the nuclear weapon did not have the decision-making power to drop a nuclear weapon. A.I. has the capability and will have the capability to make decisions like that. This is more akin to Dr. Frankenstein telling us the monster is loose, help me stop the monster. And what we have right now is — the method that we’re answering is not meeting the moment. Speaker Johnson’s not meeting the moment. Trump’s not meeting the moment. Senate and Congress are not meeting the moment. We need to get together as fast as possible with the smartest people, with the skeptics, with the people that want to regulate, the people that want to actually deal with this, the people that are going to figure out how to actually have that perfect balance. And we can’t just use this idea that if, we do this, we’re somehow going to lose to China, because A.I. does not care, once it becomes fully dangerous, whether we’re Chinese or American. That’s the danger of this. This is — everyone’s thinking about this in a way that is based on old tech and not what’s going towards the future. And this is why we need to get the people in the room.
