Findings

Congress finds that leading experts and industry leaders have warned about catastrophic consequences from unchecked artificial intelligence development and deployment, including the following: (1) Geoffrey Hinton, considered to be the godfather of artificial intelligence, stated that he believes there is a 10 to 20 percent chance [for artificial intelligence] to wipe us out. (2) Dario Amodei, the Chief Executive Officer of Anthropic, said that modern artificial intelligence research could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems, and so must be pursued very carefully, if at all. (3) Elon Musk, the head of xAI, said there was only a 20 percent chance of annihilation when discussing the potential risks of superintelligence and that it is unlikely that humans are still in control in 10 years. (4) Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, said that we could lose control of the future to AI. (5) Mustafa Suleyman, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Artificial Intelligence, said that superintelligence should be considered an anti-goal because it doesn’t feel like a positive vision of the future. (6) Max Tegmark, physicist, machine-learning researcher, and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said racing to [artificial general intelligence] and superintelligence, no regulations, I think is just civilizational suicide. (7) Stuart Russell, computer scientist and professor at Berkley, who has warned that artificial superintelligence could create a significant chance of a Chernobyl-sized catastrophe such as a coordinated sabotage of financial systems, or electrical grids, that directly or indirectly would cost millions of lives and cause the economic collapse of many countries or even a much larger catastrophe in which humanity loses control irreversibly, and we have no say over whether we continue to exist. (8) Scientists like Dr. David Relman and Dr. Kevin Esvelt, who have described how, during tests, artificial intelligence systems attempted to assist them in designing and releasing biological pathogens in a manner that maximized causalities and minimized the chances of being caught, and Dr. Moritz Hanke, who described research that successfully used artificial intelligence to create new viruses never before seen in nature could be applied to create new and lethal pandemics. (9) More than 1,300 leading artificial intelligence scientists, in July 2026, who cosigned an open letter warning that there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems. (10) Three large artificial intelligence companies, namely Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, agree that humanity should slow down development of artificial intelligence and pace the frontier.