John Kennedy

Sénateur des États-Unis pour la Louisiane et seul républicain à avoir assisté à la réunion d’information à huis clos du Sénat sur les risques de l’IA de septembre 2026, qui avertit que l’auto-amélioration récursive pourrait faire de l’IA, d’outil contrôlé par l’homme, une espèce indépendante supérieure à la nôtre, et qu’une probabilité même de 1 % qu’elle nous tue tous doit être prise au sérieux.

Fonctions

10 janv. 2000 – 3 janv. 2017Treasurer of Louisiana, State of LouisianaSource →
3 janv. 2017 – aujourd’huiUnited States Senator from Louisiana, United States SenateRepublican; the only member of his party to attend the September 2026 Senate AI briefing.Source →

Au registre

17 sept. 2026 · Déclaration · 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 à l’époque
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 · Déclaration · 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 à l’époque
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 →