AI Boot Camps Offer to Help Congress Navigate New Technology (1)

Artificial intelligence experts from Johns Hopkins University meet with about 50 congressional staffers in Washington on Friday to talk about the role of AI in government, national security, and ethics.

Princeton held similar sessions in May and June for Congress and federal agency staffers. And next month in Palo Alto, Calif., Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence hosts a three-day immersive “Congressional Boot Camp on AI” for more than two dozen Capitol Hill staffers.

Universities say they’re strategically positioned to help lawmakers understand the power of AI and to set guardrails on its relentless reach because they were there ...