Lori Trahan

United States Representative for Massachusetts’s 3rd district and sponsor of the bipartisan Frontier Act, who told the Pro-Human Assembly of September 2026 that the AI industry is in a race to replace people’s work and livelihoods, as foreign competition once hollowed out the Merrimack Valley she grew up in.

Roles

3 Jan 2019 – presentMember of the U.S. House of Representatives for Massachusetts's 3rd district, United States House of RepresentativesDemocrat; sits on the Committee on Energy and Commerce, including its Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce. Sponsor of the bipartisan Frontier Act, which would require leading AI companies to report rogue-AI incidents to the federal government and to hire independent evaluators before deployment. The committee assignment carries no start date on the source cited.Source →
29 Nov 2023 – presentCo-Chair of the House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, United States House of RepresentativesSource →

On the record

15 Sept 2026 · Speech · Pro-Human Assembly, Washington, DC
This industry is in a race to replace us. Our work, our livelihoods … And I will not stand here and let it do it to the Merrimack Valley and the thousands of communities like it across our country. We have already lived through it once. Not again.
Co-Chair of the House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, United States House of Representatives at the time
At the Pro-Human Assembly convened by the Future of Life Institute, speaking of the Merrimack Valley she grew up in. The ellipsis stands where the page prints an attribution tag (“,” Trahan said. “), so the two halves are consecutive blocks of the same remark rather than one continuous sentence; the first half ends on that attribution comma and is rendered without final punctuation.
Will AI kill us all? Not if Steve Bannon, Bernie Sanders, and Lori Trahan have their say. →