Mike Rounds

During Sunday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Life, Liberty & Levin,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) rejected calls for a moratorium on artificial intelligence (AI) and vowed to put the proper guidelines in place.

“Look, our Democrat socialists are crazy,” he said. “You know that and I know that. A lot of the same crowd is in favor of boys in girls’ locker rooms. These are the folks that are supportive of transgender surgery for our kids. I mean, they’re — look, they’re off-the-wall crazy. It’s one of the biggest concerns we’ve got here, is these folks can’t control Congress. Now, they still can have a voice; they can still yell and scream. And believe me, our liberal press is going to give them an opportunity to stand on the soapbox. But there are reasonable individuals within Congress, House and Senate, that recognize number one, we’ve got to stay ahead of the game. Number two, Xi Jinping is not foolish. He is directing the Chinese military to do everything they can to not only catch up, but to exceed us when it comes to military applications, not just in air, land, and sea, but in cyberspace and in space, and they are moving at breakneck speeds. We have to stay ahead of them.”