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“on the AI briefing, yesterday, the Senate held its first-ever--its first-ever--classified briefing on the national security implications of artificial intelligence. It was an eye-opening presentation. Many of us spent a lot of time educating ourselves on AI, talking to experts, and holding hearings, but yesterday's briefing was a candid wake-up call on how truly complicated AI is and how much work, hard work, we have before us. This will be an ongoing effort. We want to move quickly but not too quickly. We need to move quickly so bad countries--authoritarian countries and bad actors, not countries themselves--don't get ahead of us, but we can't move too quickly because we have to get this right, and it is very complicated. Action on AI will not be a matter of weeks, nor of years but, rather, of months. I want to thank my colleagues who attended yesterday's briefing. We had a terrific turnout of roughly 70 Members--even better than the first. I want to thank the briefers by name: Dr. Arati Prabhakar, Director of the White House Office of Science and Tech; Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence; Kath Hicks, Deputy Secretary of Defense; VADM Trey Whitworth, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; and Dr. Craig Martell, Chief Digital and AI Officer at DOD. Each briefer was clear, concise, and informative.…”