When House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., said the U.S. “is in an AI arms race with China” at a markup in January, it was routine.
Earlier that month, at a House Ways and Means subcommittee hearing, Rep. Blake D. Moore, R-Utah, aired his worry that the words were already losing their impact.
“Saying … ‘we’ve got to win the AI race with China’ is — it’s pretty common now. It’s commonplace,” he said. “And I worry to some degree that we just keep saying it and what strategies do we have?”