Opinion: Congress needs tech staff to handle AI

The American Prospect argues Congress lacks trustworthy information on frontier AI since the Office of Technology Assessment was shuttered in 1995, while six large tech firms now employ roughly one lobbyist per 1.5 members of Congress. Citing Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon's resignation and call for a slowdown, it urges Congress to rebuild its own tech expertise.

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