Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner has the latest on the president's focus amid calls for an impeachment inquiry on'Special Report.' House Democrats are launching a working group aimed at crafting artificial intelligence policy, the latest attempt by federal lawmakers to wrap their heads around legislating the rapidly-advancing sector. The New Democrat Coalition, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats that touts itself as "pragmatic," unveiled the new initiative this week. Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., one of the initiative's vice chairs, told Fox News Digital he hopes the working group will "help develop real, practicable ideas that will put guardrails in place for AI. "I continue to be focused on a variety of areas related to AI, including safety and security, transparency, the future of work, preventing civil rights abuses, health care and suicide prevention, and more, and have discussions ongoing about legislation in these areas with members of both parties," Beyer said. "Congress has to get up to speed on this issue, and I think the New Dems' AI working group will be a constructive setting for progress." The Biden administration and Congress are examining how to regulate AI. Working group Chair Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., suggested it could lay the groundwork for an AI regulatory framework in the House of Representatives. "We are already seeing how breakthroughs in this emerging technology present both great opportunities and challenges with potential disruptions for workers, for democracy, and for national security," Kilmer said. "As AI's applications expand and change, it is incumbent on lawmakers to address its unique opportunities and challenges by creating a regulatory framework that both encourages growth while guarding against potential risks." WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)? Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., another member of the working group and a Marine veteran, said he was concerned with how AI would "transform warfare" and called on Congress to put up responsible guardrails against the technology's most devastating possibilities. "It's going to be impossible for Congress to really stay ahead of AI, but what we can and should do is to take very seriously AI's most dangerous use cases and develop solutions and safeguards that apply directly to those cases," Moulton told Fox News Digital. "I'm also particularly concerned about how AI will transform warfare.

Army Lt. Gen. John N.T. ''Jack'' Shanahan spoke remotely from the Pentagon yesterday with Dave Deptula, dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. ''It is my conviction and deep passion that AI will transform the character of warfare in the Department of Defense in the course of the next 20 years,'' Shanahan said. ''There is no part of the department that will not be impacted by this, from the back office to the battlefield, from under sea to cyberspace and outer space, and all points in between.'' Artificial intelligence, often called AI, has been happening in commercial industry, but that effort only started in earnest in the department about 10 years ago, he noted, but ''we've been stuck in first gear in terms of fielding.'' DOD has long struggled with how to take the world's best research and development and field it at speed and at scale, he added.

What happens when you mix killer robots and Communists? It sounds like the punch line to a Cold War joke, but there are reasons to wonder whether China's Communist government, which likes to make decisions for its citizens, can work with autonomous armed robots that make their own decisions. Ditto for the People's Liberation Army and its Soviet-style centralized command and control system. "In a military context, questions of trust will be paramount," China expert Elsa Kania told The National Interest. "Will the PLA be more or less inclined to trust machine intelligence, relative to human intelligence? Will a military organization that often seems unwilling to grant autonomy to its officers and enlisted personnel be willing to embrace the autonomy of AI systems?"

It's that important,