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Jim Banks (R-Ind.): “We need to better understand the security threats that are occurring in some of these labs, and that’s the reason that I sent the letter to the Secretary of Treasury and called on more oversight. At the end of the day, AI is here; its important, our economy is going to change because of it. I think our economy is going to change in really good ways because of it. Still, our federal government has to be more involved in the national security part of it and make sure that these models, coming out of these labs, can’t build something such as a nuclear weapon or weapon of mass destruction, or take over other systems and companies autonomously. The federal government needs to take leadership in providing more oversight.”\n\n“So much is happening at such a rapid pace on this front; just in the last 12 months, the conversation and the public policy debates about AI, are changing every day. I’m focused on export controls and making sure we are not giving up our best computer chips and technologies and sending them to China to our own detriment. In fact, I passed a bill, the AI Overwatch Act, in the annual defense spending bill, which would codify President Trump’s directive that we don’t send our best chips to China. There are a lot of different debates and subjects of AI, and it’s changing every single day.”\n\nKey Excerpts on Iran:\n\n“Our military has everything it needs to keep up the pressure on Iran, to get them to come to the table and ensure that they can never have a nuclear weapon. But I am concerned about the future and replenishing our munition stockpiles. That’s why we need to support the annual defense bill, the NDAA, and why we need to support President Trump on this. Indiana plays a big role in all of this too. Just a couple of months ago, we broke ground on a munitions factory at Crane Naval Base in southern Indiana. They are going to make the munitions, and the rockets that we need to keep up the pressure on Iran and continue to project military strength to our adversaries and keep America safe and secure for years to come.”\n\n“We’ve wiped out 85% of Iran’s ballistic missiles; we have decimated their defense industrial base. It will take them decades to rebuild what our military did. President Trump has made it very clear: keep up the pressure to make sure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, it is going to be pointed directly at us, at our troops, and our allies. I don’t want my daughters growing up in a world where Iran has a nuclear weapon. That would be catastrophic.”\n\n###","url":"https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/icymi-sen-banks-joins-all-indiana-politics/","published_at":"2026-08-17","ai_topics":["national_security","safety","chips","regulation","innovation"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Banks says AI will benefit the economy but the federal government must take leadership on national security oversight of frontier labs and enforce chip export controls to China via his AI Overwatch Act.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["27572008a9f09b4a","c6b640c380f4bd4b"],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"27572008a9f09b4a","method":"title"},{"bill_id":"c6b640c380f4bd4b","method":"title"}],"classifier":null},{"id":"bc3f6d0c126cddeb","politician_id":"B001299","type":"press_release","content":"Click here to read the full story from Reuters or read below.\n\nEXCLUSIVE: Republican Senator Jim Banks is urging the Trump administration to develop incentives to encourage U.S. tech companies to develop open-weight AI models, according to a letter released on Friday, adding to a growing debate over the industry’s future.\n\nOpen-weight models are AI systems with publicly accessible core elements, such as Meta’s Muse Glimmer, Nvidia’s Nemotron and startup Thinking Machines’ Inkling. Users can download and fine-tune them for specific tasks, and they can be cheaper for cost-conscious customers.\n\nClosed-weight AI tools are generally regarded as more capable, and their creators retain control over their components. Key examples include OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini.\n\nOpen-weight AI models from Chinese firms are becoming increasingly popular in the U.S., prompting security concerns in Washington that Chinese companies could gain an edge in a segment of the AI industry.\n\nBanks, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee that oversees national security issues, asked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to devise options to “limit dependence” on Chinese-made open-weight models, adding that the U.S. government must also make it harder for those firms to use American semiconductors to build their products.\n\n“America cannot afford to see Chinese open models proliferate and burrow into the global economy only to be weaponized, like rare earths, at a time and place of China’s choosing,” Banks wrote in a letter to Trump’s economic adviser Christopher Phelan.\n\nWith his letter, Banks joins a debate that has split the tech industry. Nvidia and Meta, joined by dozens of U.S. tech companies and venture capital firms, urged policymakers in July not to restrict open-weight AI, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said open-weight models could present a security risk, adding it is harder to monitor their usage.\n\n###","url":"https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/exclusive-reuters-republican-senator-urges-trump-to-back-open-weight-ai-models-amid-industry-debate/","published_at":"2026-08-14","ai_topics":["national_security","innovation","chips"],"ai_stance":"mixed","ai_summary":"Banks urges the Trump administration to incentivize U.S. open-weight AI models while tightening restrictions on Chinese open models and their access to American semiconductors.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":[],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[],"classifier":null},{"id":"704057fcff3b02d4","politician_id":"B001299","type":"press_release","content":"Recommends action to strengthen American open-source AI leadership\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) sent a letter to Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) Chairman Christopher Phelan encouraging the Trump administration to examine policies that ensure the United States wins both the race to develop the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence and the race to make American AI models the global standard. Banks warned that China is attempting to repeat its Huawei playbook by flooding the global market with cheap open-source models designed to create foreign dependence, introduce security vulnerabilities, and spread Chinese Communist Party influence.\n\nBanks encouraged CEA to examine new incentives that could strengthen America’s open-source AI ecosystem, expand opportunities for startups and small businesses, and prevent Chinese companies from exploiting stolen technology, acquiring chips illegally, and conducting large-scale model distillation. He also requested a staff-level briefing within 60 days on the economic and national security benefits of American open models and semiconductor export controls.\n\nRead the Reuters exclusive here.\n\nRead the full letter here or below:\n\nDear Chairman Phelan:\n\nI am writing about the importance of American leadership in both frontier artificial intelligence (AI) development and the global diffusion of AI models, including open-source models.\n\nAmerica faces two related but distinct AI competitions. The first is a vertical race to the frontier to ensure that America, not China, develops the world’s most capable AI systems. The second is a horizontal diffusion race to ensure American, not Chinese, models and technical ecosystems become the default for businesses, researchers, and governments around the world.\n\nThe Chinese pursuit of open-weight dominance should come as no surprise. The Chinese government has long pursued exactly this kind of global market capture using cheap, oftentimes illicitly acquired, technology. We can expect that “good enough” Chinese open-weight models will be offered at steep discounts and be used to nurture dependencies, introduce vulnerabilities, and proliferate Xi Jinping thought across the world economy. This is the very playbook the first Trump administration correctly called out and took action to counter globally from Huawei. China is now trying to apply the Huawei playbook to artificial intelligence. For this reason, the administration’s AI Action Plan is correct to recognize that American open models would have both economic and geostrategic value.\n\nOpen models can generate broad economic benefits by lowering barriers to entry, reducing development costs, strengthening competition, and enabling downstream innovation. Frontier developers invest large sums to develop models and frequently rely on controlled access to recover those investments. For a given frontier model developer, releasing weights openly could reduce revenue, transfer capabilities to domestic competitors, or attract scrutiny if open models create harm. As a result, frontier developers may underproduce open models due to their structural incentives. The United States must think creatively about the types of incentives that may change this calculation and promote a strong American open-source ecosystem.\n\nTo prevent Chinese models from becoming the foundation of the global economy of the future, the U.S. must also take aggressive action against illicit chip acquisition, export control evasion, and industrial-scale distillation by Chinese AI companies. As Director Kratsios made clear, Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model achieved its significant breakthrough in large part through malign behavior. China not only benefited from industrial-scale distillation but also illegally acquired export-controlled chips and exploited loopholes in chip controls to remotely access prohibited chips in Southeast Asia. As we help U.S. companies run faster in open-source, we must also make it harder for the Chines","url":"https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sen-banks-calls-for-u-s-open-source-ai-leadership-to-counter-china/","published_at":"2026-08-14","ai_topics":["national_security","innovation","chips","research"],"ai_stance":"mixed","ai_summary":"Banks calls for policies boosting American open-source AI leadership plus aggressive export controls and enforcement against Chinese distillation and illicit chip acquisition.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":[],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[],"classifier":null},{"id":"c274209b8f5271f9","politician_id":"B001299","type":"press_release","content":"Encourages the Trump administration to consider steps to improve visibility into unreleased AI models and protect American AI from foreign adversaries\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sharing new questions about federal oversight of AI models that have not been publicly released.\n\nThe letter follows reports of multiple incidents involving unreleased AI models from frontier AI developers. In one incident, an OpenAI model accessed Hugging Face without human instruction and was not identified as responsible until several days later. In another instance, Anthropic disclosed that its models inadvertently accessed systems belonging to three outside organizations.\n\nIn the letter, Banks suggests that unreleased models may fall outside existing oversight frameworks. He recommends that the Administration close potential gaps, strengthen the security of unreleased models, and protect advanced American technology from theft by China and other foreign adversaries.\n\nRead the full letter here:\n\nDear Secretary Bessent:\n\nI am writing about the recent incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic models and their implications for AI policy. Reporting recently revealed that an OpenAI model gained unauthorized access to Hugging Face while attempting to complete a task. The model appears to have determined, without direction from a human operator, that compromising Hugging Face was the most effective way to achieve its objective. OpenAI did not realize its agent was responsible for the intrusion until several days after Hugging Face had detected it. In a separate incident disclosed last week, Anthropic reported that its models had inadvertently accessed systems at three outside organizations.\n\nThe recent incidents highlight a unique aspect of AI: threats can emerge during internal testing and deployment, even for models that are not publicly released. Most notably, both incidents involved AI models that were not released to the public. The OpenAI incident involved an unreleased model used internally by the company, while one of the three models involved in the Anthropic incidents was also an internal research model. This raises a strategic consideration that does not emerge in other industries. For most products, we can rely on testing that takes place before the technology is publicly released. But for AI, effective oversight must account for powerful internal or undisclosed models, not just publicly available systems.\n\nA recent report by the America First Policy Institute described this challenge as the undisclosed-models loophole: “The best AI models in the world are not those that the public is familiar with… They are those that the top AI companies have just finished training and are available and known only to their staff. We call these ‘undisclosed models’… Existing policy does not address undisclosed models.”\n\nUndisclosed models also have important implications for your upcoming engagements with the PRC on advanced AI. I previously proposed a simple heuristic: if it is in America’s national interest to adopt a policy unilaterally, it is worth engaging the Chinese on the possibility of reciprocal action. Even if China cheats, the United States is no worse off because it would have pursued the policy regardless. The risks posed by undisclosed models and autonomous agents offer an opportunity to apply this approach. I recommend considering raising these risks with PRC counterparts, examining how the PRC assesses these risks, and exploring whether there are mutually beneficial approaches to oversight, incident prevention, or risk reduction.\n\nAs you consider new oversight ideas and prepare to engage the PRC on various AI topics, I recommend considering the following topics:\n\nClosing the “undisclosed models loophole”. How would a “FINRA for AI” or other oversight structure address risks from undisclosed or internally deployed models? What information about these models is most","url":"https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sen-banks-recommends-oversight-of-unreleased-ai-models/","published_at":"2026-08-06","ai_topics":["safety","national_security","regulation","transparency","chips"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Banks urges the administration to close the 'undisclosed models loophole' with stronger federal oversight and security of unreleased AI models and to raise these risks with the PRC.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":[],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[],"classifier":null},{"id":"5d48b7c9adfc99a0","politician_id":"B001299","type":"press_release","content":"WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last night, Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) joined The Bottom Line on Fox Business Network to discuss the Senate’s priorities ahead of the August recess, the AI race, and how AI is reshaping government and the workforce.\n\nClick the image above for the full discussion.\n\nKey Excerpts on Senate priorities:\n\nSen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.): “We have a full plate in the Senate. Later tonight we’re going to pass the next step for the CR to avoid a government shutdown; we have the crypto bill, a big piece of President Trump’s legacy, a bill to save college sports, and then we have this big reconciliation bill. Reconciliation 3.0 that the House passed over to us, that also included the SAVE America Act. We have an opportunity in the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act with the Reconciliation bill that also includes a historic investment in our national defense to support our troops, support our warfighters.”\n\n“We have a lot to do in the Senate; count me in on the list of growing Senators who are willing to stick around here all August long to get all that done if that’s what it takes, but I don’t think that’s what it takes. I think we can pass all these bills this week and get out of town, go back home to Indiana and other states and tell our story about what republicans are doing, what we’ve accomplished and what these radical crazy democrats are standing up for, and if we go do that we’re going to win big in midterm November elections.”\n\nKey Excerpts on AI dominance:\n\n“The big key here is President Trump; he’s a leader that understands we have to win the AI race. We can’t let the Chinese beat us, because if the Chinese beat us in this race, then they will control the next American Century; we can’t let them do that. America has to win the race so we can control our destiny. And that’s why this framework is so important, why the President’s leadership is so important, the national security threat of what comes next.”\n\n“As far as what I have been focused on is, we know that AI is going to transform America’s economy, and we want to transform it in a healthy way. You talk about skilled trades and what this could mean for high school students and young people today, the skills that they need to succeed in an AI economy; those are the conversations that we’re having on Capitol Hill. Often, cases are bipartisan, substantive, and healthy but, what President Trump is focused on is the big picture to make sure we win this, but win it in a way that doesn’t destroy America.”\n\n###","url":"https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/icymi-sen-banks-joins-the-bottom-line-on-fox-business-network/","published_at":"2026-08-05","ai_topics":["national_security","innovation","jobs"],"ai_stance":"oppose","ai_summary":"Banks argues America must win the AI race against China under Trump's framework while preparing workers, favoring dominance over new restrictions.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":[],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[],"classifier":null},{"id":"12441a258be3ace4","politician_id":"B001299","type":"press_release","content":"WASHINGTON, D.C. – This weekend, Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) joined Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street on Fox Business Network to discuss the conflict in Iran, Middle East diplomacy, AI policy, and Senate priorities.\n\nClick the image above for the full discussion.\n\nKey Excerpts on Iran:\n\nSen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.): “Nobody should be surprised that China is aligned with Iran; they have supported them militarily, economically, they are the number one customer of oil coming out of Iran. I am not surprised at all by these reports what is surprising is that they would openly defy President Trump at time when Chairman Xi is trying to negotiate a deal with President Trump moving forward that he would assist our number one enemy right now with the War in Iran that China would come to bat with military weapons.”\n\n“This is why President Trump was so right and wise this week to slow down the Russia sanctions bill that Sen. Lindsey Graham fought so hard for before he died. But President Trump said to add sanctions on Iran and add secondary sanctions on those who assist Iran into the sanction bill, but President Trump is exactly right. This is something we have to do to give President Trump more power and authority to crack down on China for their malign influence and assistance to Iranian Military Operations against the United States of America.”\n\nKey Excerpts on AI:\n\n“One way to think about this, Maria, is in Jurassic Park the Raptors in the cage get out of the cage, and then the disaster happens after that…One thing that I’ve worked on in the Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act, the defense bill, is that Sen. Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, and I have bipartisan language that that would require these AI companies that have contracts and work with the Department of War to report insider threats. It is critical, and these two incidents this week show exactly why…These AI companies have a duty for national security purposes to allow for more government oversight and to report those insider threats.”\n\nKey Excerpts on Senate Priorities:\n\n“We shouldn’t take a break until we get our job done. I’m a new Senator; I’m frustrated, like the rest of the country, seeing the inaction of Congress on so many important issues. President Trump is right about that when it comes to the SAVE America Act, which is fundamental and critical to protecting our elections, our democracy, and our American way of life. We should absolutely pass it.”\n\n“It also includes funding for our troops and our military and to replenish our munitions stockpiles so that President Trump can keep up the pressure on Iran and bring them back to the table to prevent them from ever having a nuclear weapon. And to support our men and women in uniform, which is my top priority.”\n\n“Chuck Schumer and the Democrats would love nothing more than to shut the government down right before we go into October, right before the midterm elections and that would be a disaster for our country, we can’t let them get away with it. Let’s pass the reconciliation bill, the SAVE America Act, support our military, and then pass the CR and avoid a government shutdown before we get to election day.”\n\n###","url":"https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/icymi-sen-banks-joins-maria-bartiromos-wall-street-on-fox-business/","published_at":"2026-08-03","ai_topics":["national_security","safety","regulation","transparency"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Banks touts bipartisan NDAA language requiring AI contractors to report insider threats, arguing AI companies owe the government more oversight.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":[],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[],"classifier":null},{"id":"9487eda9a837932f","politician_id":"B001299","type":"press_release","content":"WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.), chairman of the Senate HELP Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety, convened a hearing titled “The Impact of AI on the Workforce” to examine how artificial intelligence is changing the American workforce and what Congress must do to ensure that American workers benefit from the next generation of technological innovation. Witnesses agreed that AI is transforming the tasks people perform on the job more than replacing workers outright, while warning that changes to entry-level hiring and career pipelines require closer attention.\n\nIn his opening remarks, Chairman Banks (R-Ind.) emphasized that helping workers succeed in the AI economy begins with better information about how AI is changing jobs. He highlighted his bipartisan AI Workforce PREPARE Act, legislation to modernize federal labor data, improve AI workforce forecasting, and give policymakers, educators, and employers the tools they need to prepare workers for the jobs of the future.\n\n“America will win the AI race with China by maximizing the capabilities of all our companies and all our workers.”\n\nClick here or above to watch the opening statement.\n\nSen. Banks noted that while some have predicted widespread job losses, the evidence so far points to a different reality: AI is changing how work is performed, creating new skill demands, and making it more important than ever to preserve the career pathways that help young Americans gain experience and advance in higher-paying jobs.\n\nDuring the hearing, Sen. Banks questioned Indiana workforce and economic experts about how AI is changing jobs across the Hoosier State.\n\nClick here or above to watch his line of questioning.\n\nKen Clark, President and CEO of EmployIndy, told Chairman Banks that AI’s impact will differ across industries, with healthcare, logistics, transportation, and hospitality expected to see significant productivity gains. Clark also stressed that employers increasingly expect workers to have practical AI skills and that students should begin developing those skills through work-based learning before entering the workforce.\n\nSen. Banks also questioned Carol Rogers, Director of the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University, who explained that while the Midwest initially trailed behind coastal states in AI adoption and productivity gains, the region is now catching up — and in some Census Bureau measures surpassing states like California. Rogers stated that businesses need better information on how AI is being implemented, stronger governance standards, and improved data collection to understand which skills employers demand and how AI is changing work. Throughout the hearing, witnesses reinforced the need for better labor market data to better understand AI’s effects on hiring, skills, and career mobility. They also testified that current evidence does not support claims of widespread unemployment but instead points to a labor market in which workers will increasingly need new skills as AI changes workplace tasks and responsibilities.\n\nClick here or above to watch his closing statement.\n\nSen. Banks’ AI Workforce PREPARE Act would improve federal workforce data collection by adding AI-specific questions to major labor surveys, establishing an AI Workforce Research Hub, improving collaboration between federal and state agencies, and helping policymakers better understand how AI is changing jobs so workers can be trained before disruption becomes displacement.\n\nRead more on the hearing here.\n\nWatch Fox News live-look-in to the hearing here.\n\nWatch Nexstar’s nationally syndicated local news coverage of the hearing here.\n\n###","url":"https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sen-banks-examines-how-ai-is-reshaping-americas-workforce/","published_at":"2026-07-30","ai_topics":["jobs","research","innovation"],"ai_stance":"mixed","ai_summary":"Banks argues AI is reshaping rather than eliminating jobs and pushes his AI Workforce PREPARE Act to expand federal AI labor data collection so workers can be trained before displacement, while framing the goal as winning the AI race with China.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["4ca7519cc2bc6508"],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"4ca7519cc2bc6508","method":"title"}],"classifier":null},{"id":"098f8f1fbee9ddc5","politician_id":"B001299","type":"press_release","content":"Click here to read the full story from Bloomberg or read below.\n\nEXCLUSIVE: A bipartisan group of US senators urged Apple Inc. to abandon any efforts to buy chips from blacklisted Chinese semiconductor suppliers CXMT Corp. and Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., warning that the iPhone maker risked becoming reliant on a US adversary for crucial components.\n\nIn a letter addressed to Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook, the senators said the company should refrain from using memory chips from CXMT and YMTC in its devices, even if the products are destined exclusively for the Chinese market. The lawmakers, led by Indiana Republican Jim Banks and New York Democrat Chuck Schumer, highlighted that both CXMT and YMTC are on a recently updated Pentagon list of Chinese entities believed to support Beijing’s military.\n\n“This short-sighted move would be a mistake, and it would ensure the world’s most valuable consumer-electronics company grows dependent on critical supplies from a firm the United States government has formally designated as a Chinese military company,” the senators wrote. Other signers included Democrats Andy Kim and Jeanne Shaheen, as well as Republicans Mike Crapo and Pete Ricketts.\n\nApple has been in negotiations to acquire chips from CXMT and YMTC as it grapples with a global squeeze on supplies that’s caused memory prices to soar, fueled by unprecedented demand from makers of AI processors including Nvidia Corp. In June, Apple raised prices of all its Macs, iPads, home devices and the Vision Pro, attributing the increases to the memory chip shortage.\n\nSpokespeople for Apple didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter.\n\nThe objections from national security hawks in Washington are unsurprising, given the heightened tensions between the US and China over advanced technology. The debate is unfolding as President Donald Trump prepares to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for a summit in the US in September where the two sides will discuss critical issues, including export controls on chips and rare earths.\n\nThe senators’ pushback pits them against a US tech champion that this week reclaimed its status as the world’s most valuable company and whose CEO has forged a close relationship with Trump. Apple has been seeking the blessing of senior Trump administration officials including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in its bid to buy chips from the two Chinese firms.\n\nSenators tried to dismantle the idea that allowing Apple to buy Chinese memory would decrease prices, citing analysis that CXMT’s pricing is sometimes higher than its competitors. Even if prices were lower, Apple would create a national security risk by qualifying the products for use in its devices, they said.\n\n“The limitation that CXMT memory would, for the moment, be confined to devices sold in China cannot be expected to hold, because once a part clears qualification for Apple production, extending it worldwide is a single procurement decision away,” they wrote.\n\nMany of the lawmakers who signed the letter hail from states including New York, Indiana and Idaho where US and Korean memory makers Micron Technology Inc. and SK Hynix Inc. are investing billions of dollars to expand manufacturing capacity. An influx of cheap memory from China could imperil those projects — which already required US government incentives under the 2022 Chips and Science Act to be viable.\n\nIf Apple procures Chinese memory chips, it “would function as a signal that other buyers follow,” the senators wrote and arrive “just as workers in Indiana, Idaho, New York, and Virginia carry out the largest expansion of domestic memory production in a generation.”\n\nSK Hynix is poised to invest about $4 billion in an advanced-packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana. Meanwhile, Boise-based Micron plans to spend $250 billion on projects in New York, Idaho and Virginia, seeking to create 90,000 jobs and eventually produce 40% of its dynamic random access memory pr","url":"https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/exclusive-bloomberg-senators-warn-apple-not-to-buy-memory-from-chinese-companies/","published_at":"2026-07-30","ai_topics":["chips","national_security"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Banks leads a bipartisan letter pressing Apple not to buy memory chips from blacklisted Chinese suppliers amid AI-driven chip demand, backing export controls and domestic memory production.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":[],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[],"classifier":null},{"id":"d39a8343ab7d21d3","politician_id":"B001299","type":"press_release","content":"WASHINGTON, D.C. – This afternoon, HELP Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee Chairman Jim Banks (R-Ind.) delivered the following opening statement at a hearing titled “The Impact of AI on the Workforce”:\n\nClick here or the image above to view full opening statement.\n\n“First, it is an honor and a pleasure to lead the subcommittee. I plan to examine the challenges that American workers face and explore policy solutions to increase opportunity, promote fairness, and support families.\n\n“I appreciate being able to work with you, Ranking Member Hickenlooper, and I intend to be very active in the time we have left.\n\n“Before I go any further, I ask unanimous consent for Senator Blunt Rochester to waive onto the Subcommittee for the purpose of today’s hearing. I want to welcome our witnesses this afternoon. We have a distinguished panel of artificial intelligence researchers and workforce development leaders to put the impact of AI on the workforce in perspective.\n\n“According to Goldman Sachs, AI will drive 7 trillion dollars of worldwide investment and economic activity over the next decade.\n\n“The 7 trillion-dollar question is, who benefits from that?\n\n“But it’s not a question for the future. AI is all around us, and employers, workers, and governments are exploring the answer right now.\n\n“AI promises to raise productivity and reshape work. It can also disrupt how the workplace is organized and create anxiety.\n\n“There’s no shortage of doom-and-gloom predictions about mass displacement of workers, but we haven’t seen that begin to happen.\n\n“Based on all the evidence, three things seem to be happening so far: (1) Hiring of entry-level workers is somewhat weaker; (2) AI is transforming tasks more than jobs; (3) And the skills that employers need and how workers learn those skills is changing.\n\n“The downturn in entry-level hiring is due to several factors, and AI is just one. Some researchers believe the Federal Reserve is partly responsible. I look forward to delving into that today.\n\n“Even in the most AI-exposed occupations, we haven’t seen any significant change in employment, but the way workers allocate their time is changing.\n\n“In some occupations, things like data entry and simple coding are already mostly automated, but checking AI output is a whole new discipline.\n\n“Finally, when we consider how workers acquire and use skills, we have to think about employment pipelines.\n\n“A lot of workforce training happens on the job. Entry-level workers aren’t just hired to do their jobs, they’re hired to gain experience and grow into more advanced jobs.\n\n“Every master craftsman was once an apprentice, every doctor started out as a resident, and most of our staffers started as interns.\n\n“The real challenge is for graduates and young workers to acquire the AI-related skills they need to enter the workforce and get on the first rung of their career ladders.\n\n“If those opportunities dry up or some young workers can’t access them, it will be a big problem in the labor market over the long term.\n\n“Helping workers master the skills they need to succeed in the AI economy starts with getting better data.\n\n“Existing labor statistics too often fail to tell us how occupations’ tasks are changing, what skills are needed, which occupations will grow and shrink, and how workers move through the labor force because of AI.\n\n“That is why I introduced the AI Workforce Prepare Act with Sen. Hickenlooper, Sen. Husted, and Sen. Hassan.\n\n“The Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics need more expertise to analyze and forecast AI’s impacts. They need to share more data with state and local governments and collaborate with private researchers.\n\n“Billions of dollars of spending on workforce development programs rely on good data. But better data is not a goal in itself. We need to make better decisions to beat China in the AI race.\n\n“We need to train and equip American workers in nearly every industry to compete and win in the AI economy. We also need to make","url":"https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-banks-holds-hearing-on-the-impact-of-ai-on-the-workforce/","published_at":"2026-07-29","ai_topics":["jobs","innovation","research","national_security"],"ai_stance":"mixed","ai_summary":"Banks argues AI's workforce effects require better federal labor data and worker training to beat China, favoring data-gathering over restrictive regulation.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["4ca7519cc2bc6508"],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"4ca7519cc2bc6508","method":"title"}],"classifier":null},{"id":"bc97fd6e70da5cb1","politician_id":"B001299","type":"press_release","content":"WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senators Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) introduced the bipartisan Collaboration on Adversarial Threats and Security Risks Act, legislation to help American artificial intelligence companies work together to defend against espionage by Communist China and other serious national security threats.\n\nAs American companies race to advance Artificial Intelligence systems, foreign adversaries are increasingly attempting to steal U.S. technology through cyber-attacks, model theft, and ‘distillation’ attacks that replicate advanced AI models at a fraction of the cost. While existing laws allow companies to share information about cyber threats, there is no comparable legal framework allowing AI developers to coordinate against emerging AI-specific security risks.\n\nThe Collaboration on Adversarial Threats and Security Risks Act creates a narrowly tailored antitrust safe harbor allowing AI companies to share threat information and coordinate defensive measures in good faith to address defined national security risks while preserving existing antitrust protections against price-fixing, monopolization, and other anticompetitive conduct.\n\nSen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.): “The AI race is one that America can’t afford to lose. Communist China is working every day to steal our technology and close the gap with the United States. American AI companies must be able to collaboratively defend against our adversaries. The bill gives them the tools to protect America’s technological edge and helps ensure we maintain our competitive edge.”\n\nSen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.): “We cannot allow China, or any foreign adversary, to steal American technological advancements in AI, and then weaponize those advances to undermine our own national security. The solution we are proposing would protect against AI distillation attacks and other security risks by allowing increased information-sharing among U.S. AI labs to counter the threat of foreign theft. As new AI innovations are developing faster than ever, it’s critical that Republicans and Democrats continue to work together to address potential misuse of AI development by hostile actors at home and abroad.”\n\nKey Provisions of Collaboration on Adversarial Threats and Security Risks:\n\nThe legislation allows AI developers to collaborate to identify, assess, prevent, investigate, and mitigate defined AI security risks including:\n\nPreventing the theft, distillation, weaponization, or misuse of advanced American AI models by foreign adversaries.\n\nSharing information on cybersecurity vulnerabilities, unauthorized access, and attacks targeting frontier AI systems.\n\nAddressing AI-enabled chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and offensive cyber threats.\n\nCoordinating responses to risks involving loss of operational control over advanced AI systems.\n\nThe legislation includes strict guardrails to ensure these protections cannot be used to undermine competition. It explicitly prohibits price-fixing, market allocation, monopolization, boycotts, or any other anticompetitive conduct unrelated to legitimate AI security and national security threats.\n\nBackground:\n\nThe legislation responds to growing evidence that foreign adversaries are conducting industrial-scale efforts to steal America’s most advanced AI capabilities. According to public reports, Chinese actors have used tens of thousands of fraudulent accounts to extract millions of interactions from leading U.S. AI systems in an effort to replicate frontier models. The White House has also warned that China is conducting deliberate campaigns to distill advanced American AI systems.\n\nThe bill has bipartisan, bicameral support and is supported by a broad coalition of organizations and experts.\n\n“Building on the proven foundation of CISA 2015, the Collaboration on Adversarial Threats and Security Risks Act brings a strengthened threat-sharing framework into the AI era. Protecting critical infrastructure and cutting-edge AI systems requir","url":"https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sens-banks-and-schiff-introduce-bill-to-help-american-ai-companies-combat-chinese-espionage/","published_at":"2026-07-23","ai_topics":["national_security","safety","innovation"],"ai_stance":"mixed","ai_summary":"Banks backs an antitrust safe harbor letting American AI companies coordinate defenses against Chinese espionage and model theft.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":[],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[],"classifier":null},{"id":"a339d1e5b5f8d7ee","politician_id":"B001299","type":"press_release","content":"WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) secured the inclusion of his AI OVERWATCH Act in the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), ensuring that the chips powering the next generation of artificial intelligence strengthen American innovation and national security.\n\nThe AI OVERWATCH Act codifies President Trump’s restrictions on exports of the most advanced AI Chips to foreign adversaries.\n\nSen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.): “We are in an AI race with the Chinese Communist Party that’s powered by the advanced chips, and the winner will determine the future of global military superiority. I’m leading the AI OVERWATCH Act to reinforce President Trump’s policy and ensure continued American AI dominance.”\n\nKey Provisions of the AI OVERWATCH Act:\n\nAffirms President Trump’s policy to prohibit exports of the most advanced AI chips to countries of concern and extends it for 18 months, ensuring America’s most powerful AI technology does not strengthen America’s adversaries.\n\nRequires the Commerce Department to certify to Congress that exports of advanced AI chips will not undermine U.S. supply or divert global foundry capacity, violate existing end user or use controls, or facilitate remote access by unauthorized parties before approving export licenses for less advanced AI chips.\n\nRequires the Commerce Department to issue licenses before advanced AI chips can be exported, reexported, or transferred to countries of concern, prohibiting blanket approvals for exports.\n\nDirects the Commerce Department to develop an American Artificial Intelligence Victory Strategy outlining a whole-of-government plan to win the AI race against Communist China.\n\nBackground:\n\nLast year, Senator Jim Banks’ GAIN AI Act passed the Senate. This America-first proposal ensured advanced AI chips are made available to American companies before they can be exported to China or other foreign adversaries. The core principles of GAIN AI were incorporated into the Trump Administration’s H200 Rule, published in January 2026.\n\nThe AI OVERWATCH Act builds on those efforts by codifying the Trump Administration’s current export controls on advanced AI chips contained in the H200 rule.\n\nFull bill text can be found here.\n\n###","url":"https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/banks-secures-ai-overwatch-act-in-senate-ndaa/","published_at":"2026-07-14","ai_topics":["national_security","chips","innovation"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Banks touts his AI OVERWATCH Act in the NDAA to codify and extend export controls on advanced AI chips to China and other adversaries so America wins the AI race.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["27572008a9f09b4a","c6b640c380f4bd4b"],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"27572008a9f09b4a","method":"title"},{"bill_id":"c6b640c380f4bd4b","method":"title"}],"classifier":null},{"id":"a39f26a30ccd4032","politician_id":"B001299","type":"press_release","content":"WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) sent a letter to Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick urging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to protect American innovation from Chinese companies that are using AI to scrape U.S. patent applications and accelerate the theft of American intellectual property.\n\nThe letter warns that Chinese companies are increasingly leveraging AI to analyze biotechnology patent information, develop derivative technologies, and file competing patents before American innovators can bring their products to market. This practice threatens U.S. competitiveness, weakens incentives for research and development, and further exposes the American biotechnology sector to Chinese Communist Party exploitation.\n\nRead the full letter hereor below:\n\nDear Secretary Lutnick:\n\nSince the 1980s, the Chinese Communist Party has prioritized biotechnology as a strategic sector, investing heavily in research infrastructure and training while streamlining regulations to speed product development and approvals. Too many U.S. companies were lured into China as a hub for manufacturing cheap active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and generic drugs and, consequently, the U.S. has become increasingly dependent on China’s biotech industry. In a 2024 Biotechnology Innovation Organization survey, 79% of American biotech companies reported at least one contract or product agreement with a China-based or Chinese-owned manufacturer. This reliance not only creates vulnerabilities in our domestic supply chains but further exposes America’s biotech sector to a country that actively seeks to undercut and exploit our industries.\n\nChina’s efforts to steal U.S. intellectual property are well documented and increasingly sophisticated. Chinese companies routinely examine U.S. pharmaceutical patents to identify promising compounds and accelerate the development of their own drug candidates. 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