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Elizabeth Warren

United States Senator for Massachusetts and ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, who said after hearing Geoffrey Hinton at the closed Senate briefing of September 2026 that we are in the last minutes of being able to get meaningful control over AI agents that are beginning to replicate themselves.

Roles

  1. 3 Jan 2013presentUnited States Senator from Massachusetts, United States SenateDemocrat.Source
  2. 3 Jan 2017presentVice Chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus, United States SenateSource
  3. 3 Jan 2025presentRanking Member, Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States SenateSource

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  1. 17 Sept 2026 · Statement · NBC News

    we are in the last minutes of being able to get some meaningful control over these agents that are beginning to replicate themselves

    Ranking Member, Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate at the time

    Said after hearing Geoffrey Hinton at the closed bipartisan briefing convened by Senator Bernie Sanders. The page prints these words in quotation marks inside its own sentence — she “said she believes” them — so the quotation begins in lower case, as printed. The briefing is dated on the page only as “Wednesday evening”; the date given is the date printed on the page carrying the words.

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