Chip Roy

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said he disagrees with President Donald Trump’s assertion that the only control or guardrail artificial intelligence needs is a “STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT.”

Roy , who delivered remarks Tuesday at the Pro-Human Assembly, an AI conference organized by the Future of Life Institute that advocates for keeping humans at the forefront of emerging technology, said a coalition of elected officials and industry should chart the future of AI.

“We have to sit in committees and bring people in to have discussions about how we’re going to structure our lives and build a human-first environment where AI and technology remain tools for our union,” he said. “If we allow technology to fundamentally alter and transfer and change the way we make decisions about our society and our Republican form of government, then what do we have left?”

“We, the people, have to decide how we want to structure our lives,” he added.

In a series of posts on Truth Social on Monday, Trump said the U.S. already has laws on the books to prevent catastrophic risk from AI and dismissed concerns raised by AI researchers that it could cause the extinction of humanity.

Roy , in a previous interview with POLITICO, said he is thinking through the kind of future AI may create and raising concerns that it may usher in a new era of humanity with “entities that have no soul.” The staunch Republican is set to leave Congress at the end of the year.