Will Hurd and Robin Kelly are from opposite sides of the ever-widening aisle, but they share a concern that the United States may lose its grip on artificial intelligence, threatening the American economy and the balance of world power. They want to cut off China's access to AI-specific silicon chips and push Congress and federal agencies to devote more resources to advancing and safely deploying AI technology. Although Capitol Hill is increasingly divided, the bipartisan duo claims to see an emerging consensus that China poses a serious threat and that supporting US tech development is a vital remedy. Kelly, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, says that she has found many Republicans, not just Hurd, the only Black Republican in the House, open to working together on tech issues. "I think people in Congress now understand that we need to do more than we have been doing," she says.

Artificial intelligence technologies are capable of disrupting every aspect of society and the United States must do more to maintain leadership in the area, the leaders of a House panel said in a report released Tuesday. Artificial intelligence "has the potential to disrupt every sector of society in both anticipated and unanticipated ways," according to a report authored by Reps. "In light of that potential for disruption, it's critical that the federal government address the different challenges posed by AI, including its current and future applications." The federal government must "increase spending on research and development to maintain American leadership with respect to AI," including spending on education and training programs so American workers can gain skills in such technologies, Hurd and Kelly wrote. The report is the result of a series of hearings that Hurd and Kelly held in the past few months on artificial intelligence technologies.