Steve Bannon on Artificial Intelligence

Bannon supports it: he appeared at an event convened to press for AI guardrails and said action "has to be an executive action," which is federal action. His "bald-faced lie" attack targets the AI executives' sincerity in asking to be regulated — he alleges they want to socialise risk and shut out competitors — not the existence of safeguards; the label tracks the proposition, not the target. Bannon instead rejects Congress as the vehicle while demanding executive action, the mirror image of Chip Roy, who rejects the president as decider and wants Congress and is classified “Defended or excused” on the same reasoning: which branch acts is not a condition on the proposition. The closest competing label is “Mixed or conditional”; it loses because his objection is to the messengers and the vehicle rather than an express condition on whether Washington should act.