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Washington is scrambling to answer renewed warnings about artificial intelligence as executives and researchers concede that the technology may be advancing beyond their control. Congress now faces pressure to impose safeguards before lawmakers abandon the capital for the campaign trail.

Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona delivered one of the starkest assessments Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” He said, “Dr. Frankenstein is telling us the monster is escaping; help us stop this.”

Gallego added, “The method that we’re answering [with] is not meeting the moment.” His warning captured the growing fear that Washington is relying on an outdated political process to confront technology moving at extraordinary speed.

The pressure intensified after a researcher resigned from Anthropic and warned that artificial intelligence could “kill us all by the end of the decade.” Leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI subsequently made stunning pledges to slow development, fueling demands for government action.

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro called the industry’s warnings “a bright flashing red light telling the President and Congress they need to act now to regulate and rein in AI development.” He argued that the technology offers enormous benefits but also carries extraordinary risks that private companies should not manage alone.

The episode has exposed Washington’s failure to establish a serious regulatory framework while the industry expanded. Lawmakers must now balance public safety, private property, economic freedom and national security while facing an all important midterm election.

House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to send representatives home after this week, with the chamber not expected to return until after November’s elections. That schedule leaves only a narrow opening for legislation, even as concern inside the technology industry reaches a fever pitch.

A group of Democrats led by Rep. Sam Liccardo of California demanded that the House remain in session. Their letter said, “The House should return to Washington immediately and remain in session until Congress advances meaningful, bipartisan AI safeguards.”

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The lawmakers pointed to proposals requiring transparency and formal evaluations for advanced models. Other ideas include “kill switch” requirements and an antitrust waiver that would permit competing companies to cooperate on safety and security.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats would meet Tuesday to discuss possible guardrails. “We should take decisive action now so that we can slow down, as the CEOs have recently acknowledged, slow down the pace of development in order to protect the American people and ensure that AI is proceeding safely,” he said.

Johnson rejected calls for Congress to rush into an emergency regulatory session, warning that poorly designed restrictions could hand a strategic advantage to Beijing. “If Congress just races in and does some sort of emergency session to try to regulate AI, we will lose the race to China, that is a threat to every single American,” he said.

The speaker cautioned against panic and argued that Washington must avoid smothering American innovation. Instead, he called for political leaders and industry executives to meet immediately, saying, “I’d do it tomorrow” and “I think we need to go in a big room, close the door and sort this out.”

Johnson also warned that the normal legislative machinery may be too slow for the challenge. “But the way we’re going about this is that we’re hoping some committee in the House or Senate is just going to come together with some staffers and put together the framework that’s going to go into place maybe three years from now. We don’t have that time.”

Gallego accused Johnson, President Donald Trump and Congress of “not meeting the moment.” He also dismissed the argument that any regulation would automatically cause America to lose the technological race.

“AI does not care once it becomes fully dangerous whether we’re Chinese or American,” Gallego said. “That’s the danger of this; everyone’s thinking about this in a way that is based on old tech and not what’s going toward the future.”

Trump offered a sharply different emphasis during remarks in Ireland, focusing on American supremacy and skepticism toward predictions of catastrophe. “We can put guardrails, and we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up and they’re bringing up things that won’t happen,” he said.

The House already has several proposals, including the FRONTIER Act from Republican Rep. Jay Obernolte and Democratic Rep. Lori Trahan. The Senate has moved more slowly, and a proposal involving Majority Leader John Thune and Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Ted Cruz has not been introduced.

An industry source familiar with the talks said legislation could emerge within days with “real momentum” behind it. With voters watching and technology executives sounding alarms, lawmakers may soon have to choose between a measured response and another Washington retreat into delay.

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