John Kennedy

Senatore degli Stati Uniti per la Louisiana e unico repubblicano presente al briefing a porte chiuse del Senato sui rischi dell’IA del settembre 2026, che avverte come l’auto-miglioramento ricorsivo possa trasformare l’IA da strumento controllato dall’uomo in una specie indipendente superiore alla nostra, e che anche una probabilità dell’1% che ci uccida tutti vada presa sul serio.

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10 gen 2000 – 3 gen 2017Treasurer of Louisiana, State of LouisianaFonte →
3 gen 2017 – oggiUnited States Senator from Louisiana, United States SenateRepublican; the only member of his party to attend the September 2026 Senate AI briefing.Fonte →

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17 set 2026 · Dichiarazione · 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 all’epoca
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 set 2026 · Dichiarazione · 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 all’epoca
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 →