What Congress can do to prevent an AI catastrophe
archive.today webpage capture Saved from no other snapshots from this url 13 Oct 2026 13:34:54 UTC All snapshots from host www.economist.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee Skip to content Subscribe The Economist Pro Log in Menu Weekly edition World in brief Opinion United States Finance & economics Business China Europe Americas Middle East & Africa Artificial intelligence Culture Games By Invitation | Taking on the Terminator What Congress can do to prevent an AI catastrophe Lawrence Lessig and Yoshua Bengio suggest how to reduce serious risks without abandoning American technological leadership Share illustration: dan williams Oct 13th 2026 | 5 min read Listen to this story ai narrated F or years, ai scientists have been warning that the technologies they are developing are technologies they don’t know how to control. Those concerns were largely ignored in America’s Congress. In 2024 members of California’s delegation in Congress took the