Congress Turns to OpenAI’s Altman on a Key Question: What’s AI?

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, national security and tech policy reporter Anna Edgerton looks at Congress’s effort to get a handle on AI. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

To regulate technology, especially something as complex and fast-moving as AI, Congress first needs to understand it. Lawmakers are counting on Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI — the Microsoft-backed startup behind ChatGPT — to offer up some insights.