Congresswoman urges AI guardrails after Anthropic whistleblower resignation
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-09-10
A former Anthropic pretraining researcher resigned, claiming both OpenAI and Anthropic are recklessly racing toward self-improving superintelligence. Congresswoman Pettersen responded: the last Congress's bipartisan AI task force recommendations were disregarded by Speaker Johnson and the task force disbanded — Congress must now build commonsense guardrails to avoid the worst outcomes.
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