Kevin Dugan: Congress isn’t ready for the AI revolution

+ The first mention of artificial intelligence in the Congressional Record dates back to 1964, when Senator Hubert Humphrey marveled at machines “that read, that remember, that improve their performance.”

+ (AI) is not the kind of predicament that can be solved by investing in new job training — that old Washington solution to the slow death of the manufacturing sector and the spread of global free trade.

+ We are not just consumers of AI — we are its competitors. And by the time the government realizes this, it may already be too late.

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