Extended Interview: Sen. Dave McCormick on AI
CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley
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🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) talks with Robert Costa about how energy and the rise in artificial intelligence go hand-in-hand; America's rivalry with China over AI; and nuclear power.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Jane Pauley. |
| 0:10.0 | There's no question artificial intelligence has brought revolutionary change to our world, |
| 0:16.0 | but not without controversy. |
| 0:19.0 | Huge, power-hungry data centers are popping up by the thousands in towns |
| 0:23.9 | across America. One proponent is Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Dave McCormick. He's talking |
| 0:31.1 | with Sunday mornings Robert Costa. AI, it's on everybody's mind, including people in Pennsylvania. There are challenges with it, |
| 0:42.1 | in terms of the infrastructure for sure. How do you see the AI race? Who is the United States |
| 0:48.4 | racing against? Yeah. Well, I think it's, this is a big thing to say, but I think it's the most |
| 0:54.0 | transformative thing that will happen in our lifet's, this is a big thing to say, but I think it's the most transformative |
| 0:54.9 | thing that will happen in our lifetimes. Here's a really big statement. It might be the most |
| 1:00.2 | transformative thing to happen in human history. That's how big of a technological change is |
| 1:06.4 | happening. You can think of the printing press or the Industrial Revolution, the combustion |
| 1:10.2 | engine. This is much bigger than that. |
| 1:13.8 | And it has enormous consequences for society. |
| 1:16.3 | It has enormous consequences for national security, for productivity, for how we think |
| 1:21.1 | about work, for our society in general. |
| 1:24.2 | And it's happening, whether we like it or not. This is something that is happening. |
| 1:29.5 | And so the question is, how do we as a society guide it? |
| 1:33.8 | The question is how do we make sure it is to the benefit of all society that it helps |
| 1:39.5 | everyone and how do we mitigate the risk of it? |
| 1:42.9 | And so that's the starting point that I have for it. |
| 1:45.0 | And when I talk about AI, I also talk about energy because they're different sides of the |
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