Congress Has Found A New Silicon Valley Bogeyman: Artificial Intelligence

Clearly, Facebook and Twitter no longer seem like the scariest bogeymen around town, with D.C. conversation around artificial intelligence, “sucking up all of the oxygen,” conceded Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of Accountable Tech, a tech watchdog group. “The fact that just this week—even with a government shutdown looming—you’ve got three separate Congressional hearings…really underscores the extent to which AI has consumed Capitol Hill.”