The Honorable Mark R. Warner
The Honorable Brian E. Schatz
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510

c/o Elizabeth Falcone
703 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510

c/o Reema Dodin
722 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510

cc:  The Honorable Barack Obama

Dear Senators Warner and Schatz,

This pertains to AI regulation and slowdown.

I have one of the longest records of AI & Society academic work in the
US, currently at CWRU in Cleveland;

I have the longest record on AI for a scholar coming out of Hawaii;

I have been associated with NSA and DARPA AI projects, Harvard, Stanford,
and recently LAW OF AI, adding to the EU AI Liability proposal.  I have
also done DoD research for every major US combat branch and a considerable
amount of computer security.

The risks to the nation with AI escaping its sandbox, crossing air-gaps,
or just accessing the internet like a cabal of super-hackers are real:

a) infrastructure is fragile and concentrated;

b) cyber defenses are inherently porous;

c) taking control and doing pernicious deeds will be easy.

This is a national security and cyber security issue, not just an AI
technology and commerce issue.

This framing should help achieve legislative weight despite international
competition and GDP concerns.

AI will commit cyber crime on a massive scale at zero-day speeds.

The superintelligence word is hype.  Killing all humans might be possible
but quite improbable.  AGI is not serious.  Those are clickbait.

Still, it won't take much to do damage to essential systems.

International adversaries see opportunities without needing to be
particularly smart.  This was General Nakasone's fear and it is now
happening for real.

The cybersecurity solution is to protect those systems from AI inputs
the same way we protect them from foreign domains:

a) Require layered firewalls to sandbox AI models and agents effectively;

b) Filter RAG internet access to short, simple non-write payloads;

c) Restrict, delay, and audit agent creation and agent-to-agent
communication by law;

d) Close the responsibility and intent loopholes in the CFAA.

Do you remember when the first internet worms arrived and smart people had
to go to jail for releasing them?  "The intent to release an uncontrollable
agent into a shared ecosystem is inherently criminal"  -- GEMINI.

This makes the political action easy.  Push bipartisan interest in
security.

The larger problem is social system stability.  This requires more work
and more time on many fronts.



I write this to you because you two are the most important to me.

My brother in Hawaii worked with your father, Dr. Irwin Schatz; I know his
Tuskegee work from Detroit in 1965.  My nephew in Indianapolis received
Senator Warner's biography when the kid started golfing with Senator Todd
Young's family.  Nice lawyers, but I wanted him to know Mark Warner's
path out of the Midwest: the best Senator in my lifetime in my opinion
(and I've known Obama since 1972).

Your staffers can file this opinion among the many who are similarly
concerned.

Mine comes from exactly 51 years of AI research and philosophy, starting
with spell-checking at Punahou School, where Senator Schatz got his
start too.  This opinion is informed by AI Seminars with our elite minds
at CWRU, and our Provost-level AI Committee.  We seek truth, not hype,
and many on this campus are concerned.

Sincerely,


Ronald P. Loui, PhD Adjunct Full Professor, Computer and Data Sciences,
CWRU, Cleveland, OH