Abdul El-Sayed says public oversight needed on AI to avoid serving “interests of a few against the well-being of a many”

September 13, 2026 / 11:12 AM EDT / CBS News

Washington — Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said Sunday that there are "a lot of real risks" in artificial intelligence, warning of the "pace of technological development outpace the pace of safety" amid discourse around imposing safeguards on the industry in recent days.

"We collectively have to decide that we need public oversight so that all of this technology is not being created for the interests of a few against the well-being of a many," El-Sayed said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."

Last week, a former Anthropic researcher sparked widespread concern about the pace of AI development when he publicly resigned and claimed that the rapidly developing technology could threaten humanity. Then on Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies to move forward with the technology's development with caution, with a three-point plan focused on "pacing the frontier." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Saturday agreed with Amodei, calling a commitment to having independent evaluators a "great idea." And Elon Musk, owner of SpaceXAI, concurred, saying simply, "Dario is right."

In an interview with CBS "Sunday Morning," Amodei acknowledged that "for too long the industry lied…

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