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Election Edition: The AI Backlash Hits the Ballot Box
In a 39-minute NBC News midterms program, host Garrett Haake interviews Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on AI regulation, jobs, deepfakes, data centers and China, then talks with reporter Allan Smith about how data-center opposition is shaping campaigns.
Why it matters
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What it means for you
Sen. Chris Murphy expects whole categories of jobs to disappear within 5 to 10 years, and NBC's poll finds 70% of adults more worried than excited about AI.
For lawmakers
Murphy says a licensing system for AI models and products is needed, and Murphy and Sen. Josh Hawley introduced a bill creating liability for AI models that escape containment.
For researchers
Murphy claims AI companies are close to building models that escape human control and cannot fix that alone; the program presents no evidence for this.
The question it raises
Murphy frames the largest risk as a spiritual one: what happens to people if creativity, friendship and problem solving are handed to machines.
In their own words
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“if members of Congress weren't allowed to regulate industries that they aren't experts in or industries in which they don't use the products, we wouldn't do anything.”
“It is an industry-created red herring. To prevent Congress from regulating the companies so that they can make trillions and trillions of dollars in profit.”
“I think what you have to have is a licensing system, both for models, um, and for products, especially or at least in key sensitive industries”
“right now are on the verge of having um AI company built models that escape human control. And they can't seem to fix that on their own.”
“I think you will see the wholesale elimination of certain categories of jobs in the next 5 to 10 years.”
The record
- Questions
- Who can demand evidence, delay a release or stop an unsafe deployment? · What happens to work, income and the economy? · Can AI systems act beyond what people intended or allowed?
- People
- Chris Murphy (Speaks, Democratic Senator, Connecticut) · Garrett Haake (Speaks, host, NBC News) · Allan Smith (Speaks, national politics reporter, NBC News) · Josh Hawley (Mentioned, Republican Senator) · Donald Trump (Mentioned, President) · Josh Shapiro (Mentioned, Governor of Pennsylvania)
- Also covered by
- NBC News · NBC News
- What we read
- We read the whole source.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 25, 2026, via
yt-nbc-news(tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record) - Cite this
- NBC News, “Election Edition: The AI Backlash Hits the Ballot Box”, October 24, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/nbc-news-2026-10-24-ai-backlash-ballot-box