Josh Hawley Warns that AI Is an Existential Threat that Risks Turning Humans into 'Raw Material'

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Sen. Josh Hawley frames artificial intelligence as an existential threat that could fundamentally reshape American society and values. The Missouri Republican warns that AI will accelerate winner-take-all inequality, treating humans as disposable "raw material" and putting children at risk. Hawley casts the challenge as a test of America's founding "moral covenant", positioning his concern within a broader critique of how technological power concentrates wealth and undermines human dignity. The framing treats AI not merely as a policy problem but as a civilizational one.