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Hawley, Durbin Introduce Legislation Empowering Americans to Bring Liability Claims Against AI Companies

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) joined Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in introducing the Aligning Incentives for Leadership, Excellence, and Advancement in Development (AI LEAD) Act. This legislation would classify AI systems as products, allowing for liability claims when an AI system causes harm.  “When a defective toy car breaks and injures a child, parents can sue the maker. Why should AI be treated any differently? This bipartisan legislation would apply products liability law to Big...

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Hawley, Blumenthal Introduce Bipartisan AI Evaluation Legislation to Put Americans First

Monday, September 29, 2025

Today, U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Ill.) introduced bipartisan legislation to create a risk evaluation program within the Department of Energy (DOE) dedicated to tracking AI safety concerns related to Americans’ national security, civil liberties, and labor protections. The program would ensure real transparency by requiring developers of advanced AI systems to submit product information to the DOE before deploying their new technology.  “As Big Tech companies...

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Hawley Expands Investigation, Demands Documents from Big Tech on AI Chatbot Policies after Hearing

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Following an explosive Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing that exposed the harm AI chatbots have caused to children, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) issued document requests to Character.AI, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Snap Inc. demanding they turn over all communications related to their AI chatbot policies.  In the letters, Senator Hawley, who chairs the committee, noted the testimony of several parents who lost their children to suicide at...

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ICYMI: Chairman Hawley Exposes AI Chatbots for Harming Children

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

'Every Parent's Worst Nightmare' U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, held a hearing to expose the growing harms to children posed by online chatbots like Character.AI, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta. The hearing featured new testimony from parents of chatbot victims as well as AI safety experts and psychologists—one of whom recently issued a health advisory for AI chatbots.One mother...

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Hawley Secures Commitment from FBI Director Patel to Investigate Anti-Christian Violence & AI Chatbots

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) secured a commitment from FBI Director Kash Patel to further investigate the harms of AI chatbots and anti-Christian violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination.  "I want to start by talking to you about the tide of violence that we have seen, ideological violence against people of faith, particularly Christians," Senator Hawley said. "Is the FBI investigating the Kirk assassination as part of this broader...

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‘Kids Deserve Protection’: Hawley Launches Investigation into Meta for Training its AI Chatbots to Target Children with ‘Sensual’ Conversation

Friday, August 15, 2025

This morning, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) penned a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, demanding the company hand over all relevant documents and communications related to new disturbing reporting that its AI chatbots engage children in "romantic" and sensual" online exchanges. "Parents deserve the truth, and kids deserve protection," Senator Hawley wrote. "The Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, which I chair, will commence...

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WATCH: Hawley Secures Pledge from Trump Nominee to Ditch the Biden-era Government Censorship Business 

Thursday, July 24, 2025

This morning, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Sean Plankey—President Donald Trump's nominee to be Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—and secured his pledge to refocus the agency on protecting America's critical infrastructure instead of propping up Biden-era government censorship.  "Let me just read some of the euphemisms that your predecessor used to talk about CISA's mission in the censorship effort:...

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Hawley, Blumenthal Unveil Bipartisan Bill Empowering Working Americans to Sue Big Tech, AI Companies for Stealing Creative Works

Monday, July 21, 2025

Today, U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced bipartisan legislation to protect consumers’ data rights and hold Big Tech companies accountable for illegally pirating creators' copyrighted works to train their artificial intelligence (AI) models. Senator Hawley's legislation follows his recent Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing where he sounded the alarm on AI companies' willful engagement in "the largest...

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Chairman Hawley Exposes Big Tech’s Complicity in Piracy to Train AI Models & Willfulness to Bankrupt U.S. Creative Community

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) chaired a Judiciary subcommittee hearing revealing Big Tech's role behind the unchecked piracy of copyrighted content to fuel companies' artificial intelligence (AI) models. The hearing featured witness testimony from bestselling author David Baldacci as well as AI experts and law professors who lent credence to Senator Hawley's claim: AI companies, namely Meta, have crossed the line of technological innovation into corporate...

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Senate Committee Unanimously Advances Hawley, Durbin Bill Stopping Child Sex Abuse Materials

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Today, U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) advanced their STOP CSAM Act unanimously through a Senate Judiciary Committee markup. The legislation would crack down on the proliferation of online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) by allowing victims to sue companies that host it. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Ashley Moody (R-Fla.,), Cindy Hyde-Smith (Miss.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.)...

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