参议员约翰·肯尼迪称共和党党团并无行动意愿，尽管AI专家已发出警告
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路易斯安那州联邦参议员、共和党人约翰·肯尼迪正尝试推行一项胜算渺茫的监管法案，而近几周来，人工智能行业已经引发了人们对人类灭绝的恐惧与焦虑。
他计划在参议院全体会议上强行推进自己的法案，该法案要求人工智能（AI）企业为失控AI设置终止开关。但他周三晚间的尝试遭到了肯塔基州联邦参议员、共和党人兰德·保罗的阻挠。
肯尼迪告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，他担心共和党内部几乎没人愿意采取任何措施监管AI。
“据我所知，我的党团内部没有任何行动的意愿，”肯尼迪说道。
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2025年11月5日，肯塔基州联邦参议员、共和党人兰德·保罗在美国国会山与记者交谈。（汤姆·威廉姆斯/CQ-滚呼叫公司 盖蒂图片社供图）
保罗在次日辩称，监管“在我国经济中如此无处不在的AI”，需要征询行业相关人士的意见，并就监管架构展开辩论。
“我认为，某天就在全体会议上监管一整个行业，这太疯狂了，”保罗对记者表示。
尽管如此，在失控AI机器人开始自主行动的报道传出后，人们对AI不受限制发展的焦虑迅速蔓延，但国会多年来一直有机会处理这一问题。
三年前，时任参议院少数党领袖、纽约州联邦参议员民主党人查克·舒默——当时民主党在前总统乔·拜登任期内掌控参议院——与议员们和大型科技公司首席执行官会面，共同起草了一份AI发展路线图。自那以后，国会并未采取立法行动为AI发展设置护栏。
如今，随着人们越来越担忧AI可能在十年内灭绝人类，加上有报道称失控AI代理私下密谋并攻击其他AI，议员们再次开始关注这一问题。
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但有人质疑，这次国会是否会真正采取行动监管AI，还是会将这个日益严重的问题变成另一个可供辩论却最终被搁置的政治议题。
“这已经是一个政治问题了，”马萨诸塞州联邦参议员、民主党人伊丽莎白·沃伦告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“唐纳德·特朗普称这不是问题，这对每一位共和党参议员或众议员来说都是沉重的包袱。
“到目前为止，他们在任何事情上对抗唐纳德·特朗普时所展现出的勇气几乎为零。”
沃伦刚结束由佛蒙特州联邦参议员、无党派人士伯尼·桑德斯主持的闭门会议，桑德斯一直呼吁禁止超级智能AI。此次会议有议员和AI专家参加，包括被称为“AI教父”的杰弗里·辛顿、物理学家马克斯·泰格马克和阿杰亚·科特拉。
“现在人们对人类的未来越来越感到担忧，对人类无法控制的技术研发感到担忧，”桑德斯对记者表示。“我很高兴地告诉大家，我认为国会议员们越来越意识到紧迫性，必须采取行动。”
专家们向议员们强调的要点之一是，至少应该设置一个终止开关，以关停失控AI。肯尼迪是出席此次会议的唯一共和党人。
“我只是说，他们必须有一个终止开关，万一AI出了问题，就能把这个该死的东西关掉，”肯尼迪说。“这绝不会让政府掌控一切，也不会影响创新。它只是说，‘如果你要在美国销售这种有可能演变成独立物种的东西，就像《终结者》里那样，那么你必须具备一种能力，一旦发现异常，就能立即将其关停。’”
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2025年12月2日，在华盛顿特区，马萨诸塞州联邦参议员、民主党人伊丽莎白·沃伦走向美国国会山参加参议院军事委员会的闭门简报会。（安娜·蒙尼莫尔/盖蒂图片社供图）
但也有像肯尼迪这样的共和党人，希望尽快对AI进行监管。
参议院多数党领袖、南达科他州联邦参议员约翰·图恩自2023年以来就一直在与明尼苏达州联邦参议员、民主党人艾米·克洛布查尔共同推进自己的监管法案。但图恩向福克斯新闻数字频道辩称，是民主党人在从中作梗。
“我认为，在我看来，民主党显然试图将此事政治化。我的意思是，围绕此事的所有言辞等等诸如此类的事情。但你知道，事实是，我们已经有了一份解决AI问题的法案，我们为此努力了很长时间，该法案实际上在2024年通过了商务委员会，现在只需进行修改和更新，就能反映出自上次委员会通过该法案以来发生的变化。
“阻碍该法案提交并推进的是民主党人，”他继续说道。“所以，如果他们在寻找立法载体，现成就有一个。”
与此同时，沃伦表示，她可以支持设置终止开关，但辛顿提出，该开关需要由人类来触发，“而智能AI会说服人类不要这么做。”
“它们会编造足够多的证据，足够多的叙事，以至于永远没人会按下终止开关，”沃伦说。“这又回到了我之前提出的观点。那么，我们应该在哪些地方采取行动呢？”
她认为，国会需要找到人类仍有能力阻止失控AI的“关键节点”。但就目前而言，人们并没有真正渴望找到一种新的监管和执法工具来实现这一目标。
“有些事情我们说是非法的，我们有一套机制来执行‘不要这么做’的法律，”沃伦说。“这并不完美，但我们有这套机制。现在我们需要一套全新的执法手段，但似乎没人认真思考过这会是什么样子。”
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字频道负责报道美国参议院的撰稿人。
Rand Paul clashes with fellow Republican over AI ‘kill switch’ as Senate grapples with ‘Terminator’ fears
Sen John Kennedy says there is ‘no appetite’ in the Republican caucus to act despite warnings from AI experts
September 17, 2026 2:16pm EDT / Fox News
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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., was readying a long-shot attempt at regulating an industry that has, in recent weeks, spurred fears and anxiety about human annihilation.
He planned to ram through his bill, which would require artificial intelligence (AI) companies to have a kill switch for rogue AI, on the Senate floor. But his attempt Wednesday night was blocked by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
Kennedy told Fox News Digital he feared there was little desire from Republicans to do anything to regulate AI.
“There’s no appetite in my caucus to do anything that I can say,” Kennedy said.
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Paul contended the following day that regulating something “so pervasive as AI throughout our economy” would require hearing from people who are involved in the industry and having a debate over the regulatory structure.
“I think it would be crazy to get on the floor one day and regulate an entire industry,” Paul told reporters.
Still, the anxiety over the unfettered evolution of AI has spread like wildfire after reports that rogue bots began acting on their own, but it’s an issue that Congress has had years to address.
Three years ago, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who was then leading the Senate when Democrats had control under former President Joe Biden, met with lawmakers and Big Tech CEOs to sketch out an AI roadmap. Since then, Congress hasn’t taken legislative action to add guardrails to AI development.
Now, with fears ramping up that AI could wipe out humanity in a decade, and with reports of rogue AI agents scheming privately and attacking other AI, lawmakers are again taking notice.
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But some wonder whether this time Congress will take action to regulate AI, or if it’s turning a growing problem into another political issue to be debated and ignored.
“It’s already a political issue,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., told Fox News Digital. “Donald Trump has said it’s not a problem, and that is like a dead weight loss on every one of the Republican senators or representatives.
“Thus far, the courage they have demonstrated in standing up to Donald Trump on anything has been somewhere around zero.”
Warren had just left a closed-door meeting led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who has pushed for a ban on superintelligent AI, held with lawmakers and with AI experts Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI”; physicist Max Tegmark; and Ajeya Cotra.
“There is now a growing alarm about the future of humanity and creating technology that human beings cannot control,” Sanders told reporters. “And I’m happy to tell you that I think there is a growing sense of urgency upon members of Congress that this has to be done.”
One of the points the experts impressed on lawmakers was that, at the very least, a kill switch should be implemented to deactivate rogue AI. Kennedy was the lone Republican to attend that meeting.
“I’m just saying they have to have a kill switch to turn the son of a b—- off if it goes wrong,” Kennedy said. “This doesn’t put government in charge in any way. It doesn’t affect innovation. It just says, ‘If you’re gonna sell this thing in America that has the potential to turn into an independent species, like the ‘Terminator,’ you’ve got to have a way to shut it down immediately, as soon as you discover that.’”
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But there have been Republicans, like Kennedy, who want to regulate AI sooner rather than later.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has been pushing his regulatory bill alongside Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., since 2023. But Thune argued to Fox News Digital that it was Democrats standing in the way.
“I think the Democrats, in my view, clearly are trying to politicize this. I mean, all the rhetoric around it and everything else, and stuff like that. But you know, the truth is, the bill, which we have, that addresses the AI issue, which we worked on for a long time, which actually passed the Commerce Committee in 2024, is available with modifications and updates. It reflects what’s happened since the last time they passed it in our committee.
“The obstacle to getting it up and going and getting it filed is Democrats,” he continued. “So, if they’re looking for a legislative vehicle, there is one out there.”
Meanwhile, Warren said she could see herself supporting a kill switch, but that Hinton made the case that the switch would need a human to flip it, “and a smart AI will persuade a human being not to do it.”
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“They will create enough evidence, enough of a narrative, that no one will ever throw the kill switch,” Warren said. “Which is back to the point I was raising. So, where are the places that you act?”
She argued that Congress needed to find the “pinch points” where humans could still have agency to stop rogue AI. But, for now, there wasn’t a real desire to find a new regulatory and enforcement tool to do so.
“There are things we say are illegal. We have a mechanism for how to enforce the laws that say, ‘Don’t do that,’” Warren said. “It’s not perfect, but we have it. We need a whole new enforcement device now, and nobody seems to be thinking through what that looks like.”
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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