{"id":268157,"date":"2026-06-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/josh-hawley-warns-of-ai-dangers-as-mo-regulations-languish\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T06:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:45:12","slug":"josh-hawley-warns-of-ai-dangers-as-mo-regulations-languish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/josh-hawley-warns-of-ai-dangers-as-mo-regulations-languish\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hawley warns of AI dangers as MO regulations languish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/politics-government\/article316047913.html\">Josh Hawley warns of AI dangers as MO regulations languish<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/politics-government\/article316047913.html\">https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/politics-government\/article316047913.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-09 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.kansascity.com\">www.kansascity.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>            <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Standing at a podium in Washington last week, Missouri\u2019s senior senator called on Republicans to regulate the artificial intelligence industry in a searing speech that cast the dangers of AI as a moral dilemma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeft to itself, artificial intelligence will not choose moral liberty,\u201d said U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley. \u201cIt will choose the appetite. It will gather power into the fewest hands the world has ever seen and call the result progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawley\u2019s address at a gala hosted by the conservative think tank American Compass underscored the Missouri Republican\u2019s attempts to carve out a populist, pro-worker stance on AI regulation. Harkening back to America\u2019s founding and what he calls its moral covenant, Hawley has framed AI as an unprecedented and fundamental test of society.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last several months, Hawley\u2019s position on AI has echoed his populist stances on other issues, such as overtures to organized labor. Fights over the future of the AI industry and the massive data centers that power it have been at the center of politics nationally and across Missouri, sparking fierce voter backlash in local elections in Independence and across the state in Festus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must regulate, and yes, I did use that verb \u2014 regulate \u2014 artificial intelligence in the economy to ensure that it aids the worker, but does not displace him,\u201d Hawley said during his speech last week.<\/p>\n<p>As President Donald Trump and national Republicans have promoted a hands-off approach to AI, Hawley \u2014 rumored as a potential presidential candidate in 2028 \u2014 has pushed a more hard-line stance on regulation&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/politics-government\/article316047913.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Hawley warns of AI dangers as MO regulations languish https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/politics-government\/article316047913.html Publish Date: 2026-06-09 06:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/public\/latest-news\/dps5c8\/picture315420463\/alternates\/LANDSCAPE_1200\/josh%20hawley.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268160,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268157\/revisions\/268160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}