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Senate Hearing on “The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence”

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Somewhat surprised that Ted Cruz is heading this up considering his record for trust in science: http://www.npr.org/2015/12/09/459026242/scientific-evidence-...

Also, this site design is certainly above par for a .gov, I wonder who they contracted for it.

For some reason builtwith.com couldn't search the page.

And a curious amount of whitespace in the source file.

If anyone wants to deep dive it...

From what I remember, Ted Cruz is actually very support of NASA. Which is surprising given how conservative he is.

NASA, and particularly the manned spaceflight aspects, has always been popular with conservatives (particularly the "national greatness" types), though not so much libertarians (which can be confusing, since conservatives often use libertarian rhetoric, and selectively invoke "small government" when attacking programs they don't like.)

Plus, as a sibling comment points out, you have to consider the "TX" and not just the "R" in (R-TX).

NASA was in his backyard. Mission Control is in Houston. Constituents yo.

This ought to be fun. Must see TV for me. You don't hear that about CSPAN often.

It will actually be informative as the questions they ask will reveal just how much of a grasp they have on the subject matter and how it will shape society. Many members of Congress are going to be caught with your pants down when job start disappearing from their states.

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