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The House of Representatives has founded a Task Force on artificial intelligence that will “ensure America continues leading in this strategic area,” as Speaker Mike Johnson put it. “But we started this task force!” Yes, and the E.U. has had their task force working on this subject since the pandemic days. The announcement of the task force kept expectations low, with no timeline or deliverables that voters or watchdogs can hold them to. Perhaps this task force is Congress’s admission that during such a tumultuous times, and lacking any real insight into an issue, all they can do is say “we’ll look into it.”