The chief executives of the world’s three major artificial intelligence labs—OpenAI, Google Deepmind, and Anthropic—are all expected to be in attendance. Meanwhile, Tesla owner Elon Musk’s xAI startup is expected to send a representative. It was a fig-leaf intellectual argument,” the congressman Peter Meijer, a Michigan Republican who voted to impeach Trump and then lost his House primary last year, told the New York Times. Toon blamed his company’s widening losses on the complexities of the new technology, while also criticizing the U.K.’s planned investment into computing as inadequate. The rightwing Louisiana congressman Mike Johnson won a floor vote to be speaker of the House on Wednesday, elevating him to a top position in US politics and capping an unlikely and sudden rise to power.

Toon even went as far as to say that the U.K. and Europe could enter a “century of humiliation” if they fail to invest enough in new technology.

Why? Because, according to Toon, there is just more investment and support for computing technology across the pond.

Garbage is not for everyone. It’s only for the most extreme connoisseurs of humiliation. For those people who always request a more extreme humiliation recording. You will feel completely worthless and utterly humiliated. Completely reduced to a state where you can’t even remember what it was to be a human being. You are garbage.

Given Johnson’s involvement in the amicus brief, it was no surprise that he was also one of the 147 Republicans who voted against certifying the election Before coming to Congress he served in the Louisiana legislature from 2015 to 2017 and worked as a lawyer. He worked as a lawyer for the Alliance Defending Freedom, an anti-LGBTQ+ group, and defended Louisiana’s same-sex marriage ban and anti-abortion laws. Johnson and his wife promoted the idea across the country, nola.com reported, and appeared on Good Morning America to discuss the topic. “My own parents are divorced. As anyone who goes through that knows, that was a traumatic thing for our whole family. I’m a big proponent of marriage and fidelity and all the things that go with it, and I’ve seen firsthand the devastation [divorce] can cause,” he said on the show. PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 25: Kylian Mbappé of Paris Saint-Germain in action during the UEFA Champions ... [+] League match between Paris Saint-Germain and AC Milan at Parc des Princes on October 25, 2023 in Paris, France (Photo by Christian Liewig - Corbis/Getty Images) Getty Images