The 2024 election is rapidly approaching — and the fate of legislation to rein in the use of artificial intelligence in campaigns is still up in the airin Congress.
But lawmakers also are weighing the technology’s impact beyond the campaign trail; on Tuesday, they will hold a major hearing on how AI will shake up the workforce and public governance.
The session will mark the first time the Joint Economic Committee — one of only a handful of bicameral congressional panels — has taken up the issue. It’s another sign of how enmeshed the topic has become with broader policy debates on Capitol Hill.
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D- N.M.), who chairs the committee, will kick off the hearing by looking at how lawmakers can ensure companies roll out AI tools in a way that “augments” the output from workers — without replacing them.
