Exclusive: The chairman of the House’s new AI Select Committee said the committee will likely hold hearings on artificial intelligence as Congress seeks to stay ahead of rapidly advancing technology.
“Our top priority is to publish a detailed report on the regulatory framework for artificial intelligence by the end of the year. That framework will have various pillars, and those pillars will be It comes out of what we’ve been working on.” Task force members are concerned,” California Republican Rep. Jay Obanorte told FOX News Digital.
“So we’re gathering that information and then I think we’ll be holding a series of hearings, maybe one or two hearings for each of these broad pillars. think.”
Obernolte said he intends to initially hold these meetings behind closed doors to allow lawmakers and witnesses to speak more freely before moving into a more public phase.
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Congressman Jay Obanolte is the chair of the House AI Task Force. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
“I think our public hearings will take a variety of formats. Some of the hearings will be closed to the public, similar to the first meeting. “So that we can expose any hesitation or ignorance,” he said.
“We believe that other committee hearings will adopt a more traditional format, with witnesses in a more formal question-and-answer structure from members of expert committees.”
The task force, a bipartisan effort led by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-Daina), held its first meeting in Johnson’s office last week. .
Johnson told Fox News Digital in a separate interview that he discussed the group’s potential during his opening remarks at the inaugural meeting.
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Chairman Mike Johnson spoke about the task force’s first meeting with Fox News Digital. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
“We started by talking about some low-hanging fruits and ideas that people were thinking about. I was really impressed with this group and the discussions we had,” said the speaker. said.
“In terms of the role of Congress in this area, we don’t want to do anything with regulations that stifle innovation. We don’t want to impede the development of all these free markets, but at the same time we think, ‘We need to put some guardrails on top of this. I think there’s an overall sense that there are, and now what those guardrails are is what this task force is going to address.”
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Congress is racing to stay ahead of artificial intelligence technology. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)
Obernolte said the “full spectrum” of AI regulation was discussed.
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“Some talked about concerns about deepfakes being used for election interference. Some talked about unfair bias, some talked about intellectual property issues, and we’ve talked about that in depth. We discussed the potential federal regulatory structure – whether it would impose a new broad licensing regime, as Europe has done, or strengthen the powers of existing sectoral regulators. “This is what we have been doing so far,” he said. “It was a very meaningful and useful discussion.”
Obernolte said the task force will meet again later this week.
