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Marc Veasey

U.S. Representative from Texas

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AI scares me more than anything else, quite frankly.

Marc Veasey

U.S. Representative from Texas

At a September 2025 House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee hearing on AI in health care, Marc Veasey said that when people talk about the things that scare them, AI scares him more than anything else.

U.S. Representative from TexasSeptember 3, 2025Subcommittee on Health hearing, Examining Opportunities to Advance American Health Care through the Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies

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But today, the hearing is also a mater of life and death. And we have seen some very disturbing reports, and when people talk about what they see as an existenal threat and talk about things that scare them, AI scares me more than anything else, quite frankly. We have seen disturbing reports about AI chatbots leading to real harm, and some stories are so shocking they can honestly be hard to believe.

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  • The wording invokes others' existential-threat framing but does not literally state that Veasey himself believes AI is an existential threat; the claim should not be upgraded to that proposition.
  • The remark is the opening of a hearing turn whose first half is about HHS vaccine policy, not AI.

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And so we have to do something. We should not be discouraging States from saving kids' lives.

Marc Veasey

U.S. Representative from Texas

At a September 2025 House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee hearing on AI in health care, Marc Veasey said that something has to be done about AI chatbots and that States should not be discouraged from saving kids' lives.

U.S. Representative from TexasSeptember 3, 2025Subcommittee on Health hearing, Examining Opportunities to Advance American Health Care through the Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies

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… every single Republican on this commitee voted just a few months ago to prevent States from regulang these danger bots, including the companion bots that kids can access, and programs marketed to adults suffering from mental illness. And so we have to do something. We should not be discouraging States from saving kids' lives. And Dr. Wright, in your tesmony you spoke about the danger of unregulated products giving harmful advice to people searching for help, and in some cases, treatment for their mental health.

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  • The sentence does not endorse a named bill or specify the precise form of state regulation.
  • The policy meaning depends on the immediately preceding sentence about preventing States from regulating AI companion and mental-health chatbots; that context is preserved.

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