When the House adopted its rules at the beginning of this Congress, there was one provision tucked into the package that proponents think could help Capitol Hill advance in an area of exploding importance: artificial intelligence.
The provision directs the House Administration Committee, the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer and other administrative offices in the House to “continue efforts to integrate artificial intelligence technologies into the operations and functions of the House.” The provision formalizes a year-long effort to adopt AI tools in congressional offices. And while that directive may seem ambiguous, congressional experts think the push for AI could be helpful in some key ways.
“AI can be incredibly useful for personal and committee offices with the mundane, redundant tasks that they often have to do,” Casey Burgat, a legislative affairs professor at George Washington University, told NOTUS.