Congress admits to not understanding AI despite being in charge of regulating it

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AI has the potential to both benefit and harm the U.S. in unknown and unimagined ways but Congress has hardly any experts on the rapidly developing technology, lawmakers told Fox News.

“AI is going to help us in many ways. It can also kill us,” Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat said. “As a recovering computer science major, my understanding of AI on a scale of one to 10 is about a five. There’s a lot I don’t know.”

Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis said: “We’ve got a long way to go before we have any sense of its true capabilities and understanding what people like Elon Musk see as its capabilities going forward. I put my knowledge on a scale of one to 10 at about a 1.5.”

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