Greg Casar
Role at the time: U.S. Representative (D-TX); Chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus
Statement summary
Speaking at the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., Rep. Greg Casar, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said "no one can win the AI arms race" and that "it's up to us to end the AI arms race." He urged lawmakers and the public to confront the potential dangers of advanced AI more candidly and to reject the argument that the United States must accelerate development or lose to China in reaching artificial general intelligence. The one-day event was organised by the Future of Life Institute.
“No one can win the AI arms race. … It's up to us to end the AI arms race.”
Common Dreams report on Rep. Greg Casar's remarks at the September 15, 2026 'Pro-Human Assembly.'
Why we used this label
The case's fixed reference point is the proposition that Washington should impose stronger safeguards on frontier AI. Casar supports it: he calls on lawmakers and the public to end the AI arms race and expressly rejects the competitiveness-with-China argument that other speakers in this case use to resist safeguards. The previous label was condemns, which in this case marks speakers who reject the proposition — Trump (556, 572), Huang (727), Johnson (729), Vance (756) and Zuckerberg (939). Casar's criticism targets the unregulated status quo, not the proposition, so condemns grouped him with the speakers he opposes. The closest competing label is mixed_or_conditional, which loses because he attaches no condition. The previous exactQuotation ended "Our goal has to be to end the AI arms race to protect people here and around the world"; that wording does not appear in the cited Common Dreams report and has been replaced with his actual words.