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Getting AI to enhance government work will take serious R&D funding, officials tell Congress

FedScoop: Research and development funding is necessary to spur innovations in artificial intelligence that could eventually help make the federal government more efficient, officials told lawmakers at a hearing Wednesday.

The hearing was the second in a series of three on AI by the House Oversight Subcommittee on IT. Subcommittee Chairman Will Hurd, R-Texas, said the purpose is to gather insight on how AI applications can make the government more efficient.

“First, [AI] should make every interaction an individual has with the federal government take less time, cost less money, and be more secure,” Hurd said in his opening statement. “Second, AI should produce efficiencies and cost savings that will help us do more for less money and help to provide better, more transparent citizen facing services.”

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