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John Fetterman: “America should build that chassis [for AI].”

Featuring: John Fetterman, Democratic | U.S. Senate Pennsylvania

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Published June 10, 2026 | Video Starts at 18:46

And now Mythos and other concerns about mass hacking and weaponizing it that way, you know, that's coming. And now I think that should belong to America. You know that, you know, America should build that chassis [for AI]. And that's why if we turn my party into work, AI is the scourge or the cancer. I refuse to reject that because it's going to transform the world. (18:46–18:49)

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