China Fears Stall AI Safety Bills in Congress

Rollins, citing the concerns of rural Americans, said the issue must be handled deliberately: "It is frightening," she told The Daily Signal.

National Review argued in a separate piece that China wants America to fear AI and that Congress "needs the discipline to distinguish between a guardrail and a roadblock — and understand who benefits from each."

The Washington Examiner warned that America's real AI threat "isn't defeat by China — it's becoming it," arguing top-down US safety rules risk copying Beijing's gatekeeper state and choking the open ecosystem that produces breakthroughs.

RealClearPolitics described a growing, anxious chorus in the United States calling for caution, intense regulation and even a global pause on AI development, and urged the country to win the race first.

On the other side, Democrats and some technology executives are pressing for enforceable federal rules, citing the threat to jobs, Townhall reported.