Abdul El-Sayed

Democratic US Senate nominee, Michigan

Worried, week of Oct 19

Capability 4Outlook 2

1 statement over 1 week, last scored in Week 43, last spoke Oct 20.

Where they stand

Against all 33 people scored in Week 44. Bars count people at each score; black is El-Sayed, the dashed line is the average. Their marker is their Week 43 score.

Capability4 How fast is AI moving?

Average 4.5

Outlook2 Will it go well?

Average 2.5

What they've said

Tuesday, Oct 20Week 43
At a Detroit Economic Club forum, El-Sayed said AI companies were about to open Pandora's Box and nobody knows what's about to happen and called for an SEC or FDA-style regulatory agency that can oversee the development of these models.
The Democratic nominee, in a race seen as a toss-up for Senate control, said job losses the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs foresee will not take decades: It's going to happen over a five to 10 year time horizon. He wants frontier labs turned into public interest corporations.
Details and sources
Fox News renders the first line as We are about to open Pandora's box and nobody knows what's about to happen. His Republican opponent Mike Rogers, recalling an AI-guided missile test, said Think about what happened and how fast this stuff has advanced.
Michigan Advance (Yahoo), Fox News