The new ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee tells FedScoop that he’ll be prioritizing modernization and emerging tech in the upcoming session.
He’s also zeroing in on the deployment of AI and the need for an “AI-savvy” workforce, which he said have to go “hand in glove.” Connolly emphasized familiar messages of needing to safeguard the public from AI’s harms and realizing its potential, in addition to saying that President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to shutter the Biden administration’s executive order on AI would be a “mistake.”
“We’ve got to have the federal government ready and able when it comes to AI, not only awareness but deployment and security,” Connolly said.