Congress Just IGNORED the Nuclear Weapon of Our Time | Nancy Mace

[00:30] Welcome to the Cloak Room, where I tell you what C-SPAN cannot show you. So this week, we're going to go there, AI. There's a big fight this weekend. It started with Elon Musk, Dario Amadei, Sam Altman warning the world. And then there was the guy that left, Claude, left Anthropic, warning that we were all going to die in the next 10 years because of AI, okay? The Speaker Johnson wants to bring it on the Hill. So you've got Ro Khanna talking about it, Senator Ted Cruz talking about it, even the President talking about it. But President Trump is right. Whoever wins AI wins. This is the fight of our times. This is like going nuclear. Whoever gets the nuclear bomb first wins. AI is the nuclear bomb. It is the modern-day nuclear bomb. You know, all these AI companies, you know, released this stuff open source, which should have been your first clue this was bad. Because Iran? Iran's using open source to manage their missiles.

[01:31] Russia's using it. China. All of our enemies are using open source. And here we are, the top three AI, some would argue, these AI companies have cornered the AI market. They benefit, by the way. You got to look at this through both lenses. The companies that are complaining about the pace of AI are the ones to benefit from the regulation of AI because they've cornered the market. But if we pause AI the way that these billionaires want us to. We pause AI, China's going to eat our lunch. They are right on our heels. I know this because I chair a committee on technology and AI and Congress on the House Oversight Committee. I know what's going on. I know the traps. They want the government to tell them you got to have a kill switch. You don't need the government to tell you to have a kill switch. These companies should have it already. But whatever the U.S. does, it doesn't mean Iran's going to do it. Whatever the U.S. does isn't going to stop China. Who's going to stop China? This is so short sighted.

[02:32] Is AI a threat? Absolutely. The biggest threat in AI right now, which they are not talking about, is singularity. Technical or technological singularity is when the AI can autonomously create AI. When that day happens, we're all screwed, by the way. Okay. We're not just talking about job losses, technology advances, the internet going down. The worst offensive in cyber that you could imagine. This is the reason we can't stop because if we do, China is going to do everything to bring down their enemies. We're not their friends. China wants world domination. The best thing, easiest way for China to get world domination is to win the AI race. We can't allow it to happen, which is why this is so important. And stick with me here.

[03:28] Because the moment that... The moment that AI becomes autonomous, the moment that AI programs itself could

[03:36] be the end of time. It's that serious. And we're not far away. Some would argue we're two or three years away from that. But if we stop, who will stop China? Who will stop Iran? Who will stop Russia? Nobody will. The EU tried to regulate AI a couple of years ago. This is pre-large language model. They had no idea what was next with AI. They did all these regulations thinking they were great. They stopped. They stifled innovation. They stifled competition.

[04:04] AI pretty much hit pause.

[04:08] Then you had large language models come about. Nobody thought about it. You don't know what you don't know because the technology is advancing so fast. Then large language models came out and

[04:22] there was no regulation for it. Like you just can't plan for this. But what we can plan is a win. And by regulating, it's not a win for America. It's a win for China. Think about this. And it's a win for the corner of the market to monopolize the market, which doesn't need to happen. You know what America needs to do? America needs to own every single piece of land that has rare earth minerals.

[04:49] We need to process them here in the United States. We need to use our military bases overseas and here to process rare earth minerals. So we can own the chip market. So we don't have to rely on China. Because as soon as China turns off the chips, we're done. We're out. We're done. We lose. China can't win.

[05:11] America must, must win. I see you're not following me. Hit the follow button now.