Ro Khanna
US Representative, California's 17th district · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Silicon Valley congressman who proposed the 2026 Human Control Over AI Act and a US-China AI pacing agreement.
News mentioning Ro Khanna (4)
- Trump hosts AI CEOs at the White House; they sign a voluntary 'morally binding' Accord on Superintelligence, and Trump rejects new federal AI rules ★★★★
On Sept 29, 2026 President Trump hosted about 31 tech leaders and officials at a White House lunch on whether and how to regulate AI, after a month of lab leaders calling for a slowdown. Guests included Amodei, Brockman, Pichai, Zuckerberg, Huang, Nadella, Musk and Speaker Mike Johnson. Afterwards…
- Rep. Ro Khanna announces the Human Control Over AI Act: ban on recursive self-improving AI, strict liability, FDA-style agency ★★★
On Sept 28, 2026 Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said he will introduce the Human Control Over AI Act. It would ban models that recursively self-improve or change their own objectives, containment or shutdown controls until federal safeguards exist, impose strict liability, and create an FDA-style agency to…
- Rep. Ro Khanna's 'shadow hearing' with Hinton calls for a US–China AI pacing agreement; letters to DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot ★★★
On Sept 23, 2026, the day before Trump's White House meeting with Xi Jinping, Rep. Ro Khanna (ranking Democrat on the House China Select Committee) held a virtual "shadow hearing" calling for a binding US–China agreement to pace frontier AI. Geoffrey Hinton and Lt. Gen. (ret.) Jack Shanahan…
- Sen. John Kennedy's AI 'kill switch' bill is blocked in the Senate after Rand Paul objects ★★
On Sept 17, 2026 Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) asked for unanimous consent to pass a bill requiring developers of advanced AI models to build their own "kill switch" for shutting down a model that goes wrong. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) objected, so the bill did not pass. Kennedy's bill is separate from…
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