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Yassamin Ansari

U.S. representative from Arizona

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It looks like artificial intelligence, taking jobs away and risking the future of work.

Yassamin Ansari

U.S. representative from Arizona

At a 2026 Munich Security Conference panel, Yassamin Ansari said young people see AI taking jobs and putting the future of work at risk.

U.S. Representative for Arizona's 3rd Congressional DistrictPublished February 17, 2026 · date of remarks not establishedMunich Security Conference panel transcript published by Ansari's official office

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… people in the United States already care deeply about foreign policy, but it's a matter of how foreign policy affects their lives on a day to day, foreign policy looks like the impacts of the climate crisis. It looks like student debt. It looks like artificial intelligence, taking jobs away and risking the future of work. It looks like endless wars, and their siblings or their parents, or potentially them having been impacted by those wars.

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This is a narrower labor-risk framing, not an explicit recantation or contradiction of the 2025 national-security position.
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“There have been multiple recent incidents of AI being used to falsely impersonate federal officials, posing a grave threat to our national security,”

Yassamin Ansari

U.S. representative from Arizona

In a 2025 press release, Yassamin Ansari said recent uses of AI to impersonate federal officials posed a grave threat to U.S. national security.

U.S. Representative for Arizona's 3rd Congressional DistrictPublished August 11, 2025 · date of remarks not establishedOfficial House office press release

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… – Recently, Representative Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03) introduced the AI Impersonation Prevention Act to safeguard national security from the clear danger of the misuse of AI to impersonate federal officials. “There have been multiple recent incidents of AI being used to falsely impersonate federal officials, posing a grave threat to our national security,” “AI will only continue to become more powerful and accessible, so we must act now to establish stringent guardrails and accountability–that’s why we need my AI Impersonation Prevention Act.”

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The warning concerns malicious impersonation, not autonomous loss of control, superintelligence, or extinction.
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