Who?
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) — Vice Chair, Senate Intelligence Committee
LISTEN: Laslo & Warner
Ask a Pol asks:
How much is Anthropic’s new Mythos AI model on your radar? Has full Intelligence Committee had any classified briefing on it?
Key Warner:
“A lot,” Sen. Mark Warner exclusively tells Ask a Pol Politics.
Have you guys had a briefing on it in the Senate Intel Committee?
Warner shakes head.
What’s your biggest fear? Like, are we ready for it?
“Thank goodness there was a company that was open,” Warner says. “I’m not sure every AI company would have been this responsible in terms of timing of release.”
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Caught our ear:
“We don’t even have a federal law on privacy,” Warner tells us. “We don’t even have a federal law on social media.”
“I know!” Ask a Pol founder — and longtime WIRED magazine technology correspondent — Matt Laslo replies. “My data privacy — Section 230 coverage — for WIRED, from like 2019 is quoted in like 30 law reviews:* Harvard, Cornell, etc. — just because no one else was f*cking covering it! And they still aren’t.”
25 law reviews quote Laslo, not 30. Apologies.
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Mark Warner (4-29-2026)
SCENE: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo corners Sen. Mark Warner about artificial intelligence as he awaits an underground Senate tram.
Matt Laslo: “How much is [Anthropic’s new] Mythos AI model on your radar?”
Mark Warner: “A lot.”
ML: “Have you guys had a hearing on it in Intel?”
Warner shakes head.
ML: “What’s your biggest fear? Like, are we ready for it?”
MW: “Thank goodness there was a, you know, a company that was open. I’m not sure every AI company would have been this responsible in terms of timing of release.”
ML: “Yeah?”
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MW: “For me, it raises a huge amount of questions about, you know, who can we rely on before this gets released into the wild? On a number of these issues.”
ML: “And yet here on the other side of the aisle, they're still talking preemption of state laws with a federal bill?”
MW: “Again, over a long-term basis, I've always said, you know, well, preemption makes sense, but only if you've got strong guardrails.”
ML: “Yeah? But I mean, we don’t even have a federal law yet.”
MW: “We don’t even have a federal law on privacy.”
ML: “I know!”
MW: “We don’t even have a federal law on social media.”
Warner’s about to enter a tram car.
ML: “My data privacy — Section 230 coverage — for WIRED, from like 2019 is quoted in like 30 law reviews: Harvard, Cornell, etc. — just because no one else was f*cking covering it! And they still aren’t.”
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