This is again how we get our 10,000 steps in.

We have to guarantee that wherever artificial intelligence is used, it prioritizes people over profits.

It is simply not right for patients to have their care dictated by an algorithm.

I think that this is--and if anything helps us close some of the gaps that exist in our ability to take care of patients.

I introduced which Senator Budd, Republican on this Committee, the Artificial Intelligence and Biosecurity Risk Assessment Act...

So how should a nurse view this, as a threat to her employment or as an augmentation of her ability to help with her patient care?

I think that this is--and if anything helps us close some of the gaps that exist in our ability to take care of patients.

We have to guarantee that wherever artificial intelligence is used, it prioritizes people over profits.

We need to put people over profit, prioritize worker voices, and keep focused on how to best treat patients.

I do agree with you, by the way, in terms of this being an old technology.

We can guarantee civil rights protection in the utilization of artificial intelligence.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I do want to point out that 130 countries right now, 90 percent of the world's central banks, are studying and doing research on digital currencies, and, in particular, government-backed digital…

When Al Gore was Vice President and I was the chairman of the telecommunications committee, when we were breaking down all of the monopolies in the mid-90's so we could have the digital revolution, the broadband revolution, not one home…

I introduced which Senator Budd, Republican on this Committee, the Artificial Intelligence and Biosecurity Risk Assessment Act...

We need to put people over profit, prioritize worker voices, and keep focused on how to best treat patients.

We can guarantee civil rights protection in the utilization of artificial intelligence.

We have to be able to get under the hood just to understand how there are biases built in.

As I said, Mr. Chairman, more than 130 countries and 90 percent of the world's central banks are exploring their own government-backed digital currencies. We should not be suppressing innovative approaches without fully evaluating its…