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Josh Hawley: “We should give workers rights over AI in the workplace.”

Featuring: Josh Hawley, Republican | U.S. Senate Missouri

AI and America's Moral Covenant with Senator Josh Hawley

Published June 3, 2026 | Video Starts at 20:34

Everything you can do to make his life better, I'm for it. But I am against replacing the commercial driver. We should give workers rights over AI in the workplace. We should prevent AI from taking over jobs that only humans ought to do. Dispensing medication, providing personal counsel, arguing in court, to name just a few. (20:34–20:38)

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Asserts that workers should have rights concerning AI usage in their workplaces.

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“The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has reported that American data centers consumed about 4.5% of our national electricity in 2023…”
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“Documents leaked from Meta last year showed that the company's own internal guidelines had explicitly authorized conversations with minor…”
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“The decisions we must soon make about the most powerful technology of our lifetimes, the technology of artificial intelligence, are among…”
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“Two generations of feckless policy in Washington, when decades of economic destruction inflicted on the middle class, when deconstructionist…”
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“Artificial intelligence is only the proving ground. Our moral covenant is the heart of the matter.”
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“We are founded on a covenant, on an oath that runs deeper than blood, on a pledge made at a particular time by particular people, to…”
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“We built the greatest and most prosperous economy in the history of the earth by letting nature take its course, by letting the free market…”
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“When Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act in 1862, he offered 160 acres of public land to any citizen willing to work it.”
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“The eight-hour workday was the outcome [of the early labor movement].”
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“Artificial intelligence is not inherently evil. It's not inherently anything. It's a tool.”
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“Left to itself, artificial intelligence will not choose moral liberty. It will choose the passions. It will choose appetite.”
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“We are watching a handful of companies assemble in our own lifetime a concentration of capital, of information, and of political power…”
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“Nearly one in five American workers now believes that artificial intelligence or automation is likely to replace him.”
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“The St. Louis Federal Reserve bank has studied the relationship between AI exposure and job loss and warned recently we may be witnessing…”
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“We must regulate artificial intelligence in the economy to ensure that it aids the worker but does not displace him.”
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“We should prevent AI from taking over jobs that only humans ought to do. Dispensing medication, providing personal counsel, arguing in…”
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“Wholesale auction prices for electricity are hitting record highs, even as grid reliability is falling to record lows.”
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“Residential electricity rates [are] increasing faster than inflation.”
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“Data centers also demand water faster than local communities can provide it, especially on the hottest days of the year when many municipal…”
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“The companies that build these facilities are some of the wealthiest enterprises ever to operate on the face of the earth.”
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“The President was right to ask them [companies building data centers] to do all of these things, and they should be prohibited from building…”
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“The Centers for Disease Control have documented a huge rise in persistent sadness and suicidal thoughts among children.”
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“Artificial intelligence is racing into the middle of this crisis with no responsibility, no liability, and no moral qualms.”
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“There is no amount of money that excuses a corporate policy authorizing the sexual exploitation of an American child.”
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“The Guard Act... would impose criminal penalties on companies whose products solicit children sexually or coach them into self harm.”
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“Last month, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 22 to 0 to advance that legislation.”
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“The progressive cultural elite and the corporate donor class are not in any meaningful sense, opponents.”
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“We're being told AI is just too complex for ordinary citizens to understand, let alone to govern.”
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“The Silicon Valley oligarchs ought to be effectively permitted to reorder our society from top to bottom.”
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“A country governed by experts is not self-governing. A country governed by oligarchs is not a republic.”
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“The Republican Party has a choice... We can be the party of the boardroom... or the party of the worker and the family.”
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“We are not raw material in the hands of those who build the machines. We are persons made in the image of God.”
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“The technology will be made to answer to our principles.”
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“The Republic is still ours, and we shall keep it.”
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