The Politics Of AI
FiveThirtyEight Politics
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The Importance of Support Staff in Congress
A lot of the tech companies that are going to be developing this technology are run by people who are probably the same age as Congress. So it's also an issue of expertise in general, like a lot of people who end up in Congress go to law school, but a lot of them don't necessarily study computer science. And one of the little things that I noticed while are noted and found while doing research on this was that Congress used to actually have what was called an office of technology assessment. That doesn't exist anymore.
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