Doomsday AI warnings push Congress toward urgent, unsettled action

Anthropic insiders warn that AI could end humanity within a decade, prompting lawmakers from both parties to pursue urgent but uneven action—ranging from a human-activated kill switch and a pause on advanced AI to a proposed bipartisan AI Select Committee. GOP leadership shows limited urgency ahead of the election, while many Democrats expect major AI policy to wait until 2027, balancing calls for safeguards with deliberate policymaking.