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Senator Warner warns AI leaders are underestimating change; calls for data-center standards and testing
Summary
Senator Warner said AI progress may outpace public understanding and urged federal standards for data centers and testing regimes "beyond voluntary testing" before public release of leading models.
Senator Warner warned that AI developers may be underestimating the pace of change and urged stronger public safeguards. "I candidly think the leaders of AI are underestimating the rate of change," he said, adding that public knowledge and popularity of AI are falling and that populist backlash is possible.
Warner called for federal standards for data centers covering energy and water use and community disclosure, saying regulators should require that communities know "what you're gonna get good and bad before you agree." He also urged testing regimes for models before release: "we need some level of, I would argue, beyond voluntary testing before the release." Warner and other panelists discussed the balance between enabling innovation and preventing rapid, ungoverned deployment of powerful agentic systems.
