Abdul El-Sayed, senator-elect of Michigan, has called for a full-on AI pause and treaty with China: https://x.com/ONagel33303/status/2117452882773684550. It's interesting that he also echoed policies pushed forward by AI 2040 and Pacing The Frontier, such as an international treaty with China to prevent an arrival at RSI (which was mentioned by name and metaphor in the interview) and the "preservation of humanity" (word for word), and adopted positions that loosely seem to mean that China's progress is driven by American progress (albeit the mechanism, distillation, was not outright mentioned).

Though an increasingly popular position among the left wing of the Democrats, one could perhaps take heart at such statements by figures of increasing prominence in support of the cause. The tweet also received 4.9 million views on Twitter, possibly showing somewhat growing interest in AI safety.