Mike Johnson
Role at the time: Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives speaking on CNN's State of the Union.
Defended or excused
Statement summary
Johnson supported researching and adopting AI guardrails and safety measures, while opposing an emergency moratorium on AI development because of competition with China.
“We need to debate and deliberate and research what the best way there is to go to put guardrails, some safety in place to make sure that A.I. doesn't get out of control. ... We cannot put a moratorium on this because China will overlap us.”