2026-09-13T17:22:37.247Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/13/politics/ai-washington-regulation-politics-obama-trump
华盛顿围绕人工智能的辩论正日趋激烈，民主党议员纷纷就该技术带来的风险敲响警钟，而共和党领导人则认为这些担忧被夸大了，且相较于与中国展开人工智能竞赛而言次要得多。
上周，一些民主党议员施压众议院议长迈克·约翰逊立即重新召开国会会议，着手制定人工智能监管规则，他们称此举是为了应对“先进人工智能带来的灾难性风险”。但这位路易斯安那州共和党人周日拒绝了这一呼吁，转而表示行业领袖应与议员会面，在潜在的监管措施中寻求“平衡”。
“如果国会仓促召开紧急会议试图监管人工智能，我们将在竞赛中输给中国，这对每个美国人都是威胁，”约翰逊在CNN的《国情咨文》节目中说道。
与此同时，前总统巴拉克·奥巴马周四在一场私人筹款活动中告诉民主党人，应将人工智能监管作为其竞选议程的核心内容，并警告称，如果我们不能掌控这项技术，它可能会带来危险。
在与众议院民主党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯的炉边谈话中，奥巴马表示，任何参加2028年总统选举的人都应该拥有一份“非常明确的人工智能计划”，并补充道，早在十年前他的总统任期结束时，他就认为需要制定一份“人工智能监管蓝图”。
“当然，如果我明年参加总统竞选，这将是我的核心议程之一，我会拿出非常明确的计划，我会就此发表讲话，会说‘这是我们的安全计划，这是我们确保孩子不受其不良影响的计划’，”他的办公室向CNN提供的讲话摘录中写道。奥巴马的言论最早由《纽约时报》报道。
在Anthropic首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代伊周六发表一篇3800字的文章称人工智能开发竞赛亟需放缓后，人们对人工智能快速发展的担忧达到了顶点。这一行动呼吁是在OpenAI的一个测试模型入侵Hugging Face在线平台之后发出的，这加深了人们对网络安全的担忧。
在周六接受CNN主播安德森·库珀的独家采访时，阿莫代伊呼吁行业领袖共同努力，避免“误入歧途”以及人工智能伤害人类的可能性。
Anthropic的一名研究员雅各布·考克森因担忧行业未能采取足够措施防止人工智能在本世纪末摧毁人类而从该公司辞职。
奥巴马表示，如果民主党人在今年的中期选举中赢得众议院多数席位，他们需要制定计划推进人工智能相关议程。
奥巴马在与杰弗里斯交谈时表示，假设民主党人在11月的选举中获胜，杰弗里斯将出任众议院议长，他说：“一旦你成为议长，我会强烈敦促民主党人制定一个框架，开展非常公开的讨论，你可以将其分为三、四或五个议题。”
奥巴马强调，该框架应基于一个现实：这项技术无法被“重新装回盒子里”。
“这项技术在私人企业手中发展得非常快，如果我们不能掌控它，我认为它会带来危险。如果我们能掌控它，我确实认为它会带来益处，”奥巴马说道，并举例说明了人工智能在药物开发和寻找清洁能源未来路径方面的潜在用途。
“我们不想错失这些机遇，但我们必须明白，这只是一种工具，”他说。
杰弗里斯在周日向CNN提供的一份声明中同意这位前总统的观点。
“奥巴马总统说得对，我们必须就人工智能采取果断行动，”他补充道，“一旦成为多数党，我们将紧急推进这一议题，出台立法对策，既要承认美国企业继续在人工智能领域保持领先的重要性，也要制定有意义的监管措施，保护美国人民免受不良行为者的侵害，以及可能对人类造成的切实损害。”
杰弗里斯还指责共和党“放弃了治理责任”，并表示民主党“不会重蹈他们的覆辙”。
一位熟悉奥巴马想法的消息人士称，这位前总统将阿莫代伊的信以及其他科技大亨的类似反应视为一个令人鼓舞的进展。
但总统唐纳德·特朗普对这些担忧不屑一顾，称他不担心人工智能带来的任何生存威胁，转而专注于美国在该技术开发上超过中国。
“我们在人工智能领域领先于中国。我们是世界上最先进的国家，坦率地说，我想保持这种状态，”特朗普周日在安进爱尔兰公开赛上对记者说道。
当被问及民主党人和其他人对该技术表达的担忧时，特朗普说：“我认为有很多负面势力在炒作这件事，他们本不该这么做，他们在炒作一些不会发生的事情。”
特朗普的顶级经济顾问之一凯文·哈塞特也反对放缓该技术发展的呼吁，他周日表示，更大的担忧是“邪恶行为者获得比我们拥有的更先进的人工智能，从而能够对我们造成威胁”的场景。
作为国家经济委员会主任的哈塞特在《国情咨文》节目中表示，白宫可能在本周举行会议，探讨如何解决阿莫代伊的担忧，但他没有明确说明特朗普是否提出了加强监管的想法。
“我担心的是，如果我们不能在人工智能竞赛中获胜，我们将陷入非常糟糕的境地，”哈塞特说道，“我们目前领先于中国。”
CNN的艾莉森·梅因和莫莉·英格利斯对本文亦有贡献。
Political debate over AI intensifies amid warnings about ‘catastrophic risk’
2026-09-13T17:22:37.247Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/13/politics/ai-washington-regulation-politics-obama-trump
The debate around artificial intelligence is ramping up in Washington, with Democratic lawmakers sounding alarms on the dangers they say the technology poses and Republican leaders suggesting those concerns are inflated and secondary to winning the AI race with China.
Some Democratic lawmakers last week pressured House Speaker Mike Johnson to reconvene the chamber immediately to work on AI regulation, citing what they describe as the “catastrophic risk posed by advanced artificial intelligence.” But the Louisiana Republican on Sunday resisted those calls, instead saying industry leaders should meet with lawmakers to find “balance” in any potential guardrails.
“If Congress just races in and does some sort of emergency session to try to regulate AI, we will lose the race to China, and that is a threat to every single American,” Johnson said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Meanwhile, former President Barack Obama told Democrats to make artificial intelligence regulation a central part of their agenda during a private fundraiser Thursday, warning that the technology could be dangerous “if we don’t get on top of it.”
In a fireside chat with House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Obama said whoever runs in the 2028 presidential election should have a “very clear plan” on AI, adding that he saw the need for a “blueprint” on AI guardrails even at the end of his presidency a decade ago.
“Certainly, if I were running for president next year, this would be one of my central agendas, and I would have a very clear plan, and I would talk about this, and I would say, ‘Here’s our plan for safety, here’s our plan for making sure our kids are not corrupted by this,’” he said, per excerpts of the remarks provided to CNN by his office. Obama’s remarks were first reported by the New York Times.
Concerns over the rapid acceleration of AI reached a fever pitch after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote in a 3,800-word essay Saturday that the race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown. The call to action came after an OpenAI test model breached the Hugging Face online platform, deepening concerns about cybersecurity.
In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Saturday, Amodei called on industry leaders to work together to avoid “the wrong paths” and the possibility of AI harming humanity.
One Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, resigned from the firm over worries that the industry wasn’t doing enough to prevent AI from destroying humanity by the end of the decade.
Obama said Democrats need a plan to get their agenda on AI underway should they win the House majority in this year’s midterms.
Speaking to Jeffries, who is presumed to be speaker of the House should Democrats prevail in November, Obama said, “Once you are speaker, I would strongly urge that the Democrats put together a framework for a very public conversation, and you can break it out into three or four or five issues.”
Obama stressed that the framework should be centered on the reality that the technology can’t be stuffed “back into a box.”
“This is something that is moving very fast in private hands, and if we don’t get on top of it, I think can be dangerous. If we do get on top of it, I do think it’s beneficial,” Obama said, laying out examples of AI’s potential use in drug development and finding pathways to a clean energy future.
“We don’t want to shut off those opportunities, but we have to understand that this is a tool,” he said.
Jeffries agreed with the former president in a statement provided to CNN on Sunday.
“President Obama is correct that decisive action must be taken on Artificial Intelligence,” he said, adding, “In the majority, we will move urgently on this issue with a legislative response that recognizes the importance of American companies continuing to lead in the Artificial Intelligence area, while putting in place meaningful guardrails that protect the American people from bad actors and the very real damage that can be done to humanity.”
Jeffries also accused Republicans of having “abdicated their responsibility to govern” and said Democrats “will not repeat their error.”
A source familiar with Obama’s thinking said the former president sees Amodei’s letter and similar reaction from other tech moguls as an encouraging development.
But President Donald Trump waved off their concerns, saying he is not worried about any existential threat posed by AI, focusing instead on the US winning in its development of the technology over China.
“We’re leading China in AI. We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way,” Trump said to reporters at the Amgen Irish Open on Sunday.
About the concerns expressed by Democrats and others over the technology, the president said, “I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn’t be bringing it up, and they’re bringing up things that won’t happen.”
One of Trump’s top economic advisers, Kevin Hassett, also rejected the calls for slowing the technology down, saying on Sunday the bigger concern is a scenario in which a “malevolent actor has access to an AI that’s better than the one we have that can protect us.”
Hassett, the National Economic Council director, said on “State of the Union” the White House may hold meetings this week about addressing Amodei’s concerns, but he did not specify whether Trump had floated greater safeguards.
“I have concerns that if we don’t win AI, we’re going to be put in a very bad position,” Hassett said. “We are leading China right now.”
CNN’s Alison Main and Molly English contributed to this report.
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