Nancy Mace
Role at the time: U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district, replying on her verified X account
Condemned
Statement summary
Replying to Rep. Ro Khanna's call to pause recursive self-improving AI and impose criminal and civil liability, Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina rejected the proposal on competitiveness grounds, saying China will not pause and will eat the United States' lunch. The reply is the whole of her statement and offers no further reasoning. Her prediction about Chinese conduct is an assertion, not an established finding.
“China will not pause. China will eat our lunch.”