Brian Schatz actually said...

"It seems to me that this is an area that is different than a lot of these other ethical, societal, micro, macro, economic questions; this is about how we engage in warfighting."

"I think part of what we have to do is recognize that in areas like health care and agriculture, it's a pretty much unalloyed good to have more data, to save lives, to make agriculture more productive,..."

"We would like to thank Ranking Member Schatz for his tireless work as an original sponsor of the OPEN Government Data Act."

"The government should not purchase or use AI systems if we can't explain what it does, especially if these systems are making decisions about our citizens' lives."