John Kennedy

Senador de Estados Unidos por Luisiana y único republicano que asistió a la sesión informativa a puerta cerrada del Senado sobre los riesgos de la IA de septiembre de 2026, que advierte de que la automejora recursiva podría convertir la IA de herramienta controlada por los humanos en una especie independiente superior a la nuestra, y de que incluso una probabilidad del 1 % de que nos mate a todos debe tomarse en serio.

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10 ene 2000 – 3 ene 2017Treasurer of Louisiana, State of LouisianaFuente →
3 ene 2017 – actualidadUnited States Senator from Louisiana, United States SenateRepublican; the only member of his party to attend the September 2026 Senate AI briefing.Fuente →

En el registro

17 sept 2026 · Declaración · NBC News
If you have fire ants in your kitchen, you’re probably going to step on them … What would happen if we created an independent species that became superior to a human species? Would they step on us? Would they create a virus or a bacteria that can spread as quickly as the common cold to kill all of us? Now, if there’s a 1% chance of that, we have to take it seriously. And I don’t think the United States Congress is ready yet to try to reach a global solution.
United States Senator from Louisiana, United States Senate en aquel momento
The ellipsis stands where the page prints an attribution tag (“,” he said. “), so the two halves are consecutive blocks of the same remark rather than one continuous sentence. Minutes later Senator Rand Paul blocked his request for unanimous consent on his own kill-switch bill. The briefing itself is dated on the page only as “Wednesday evening”; the date given is the date printed on the page carrying the words.
‘Godfather of AI’ warns Congress has ‘maybe a year’ left to regulate AI →
17 sept 2026 · Declaración · NBC News
what happens when AI no longer is a tool controlled by humans, but AI through recursive self-improvement becomes an independent species
United States Senator from Louisiana, United States Senate en aquel momento
Speaking to reporters after the closed bipartisan briefing convened by Senator Bernie Sanders, at which Geoffrey Hinton, Max Tegmark and Ajeya Cotra addressed lawmakers. The page prints these words in quotation marks inside its own sentence — Kennedy “said that the experts discussed the ‘larger risk’ of” — so the quotation begins in lower case, as printed.
‘Godfather of AI’ warns Congress has ‘maybe a year’ left to regulate AI →