Congresswoman Bonamici says AI leadership depends on people as much as infrastructure and speed

Oregon Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici says at a House Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Technology hearing on America's AI Action Plan that the administration's AI Action Plan frames leadership as a race focused on infrastructure, speed, and deployment but leadership in AI depends on people as much as platform, with students learning with these tools, educators teaching alongside them, and workers adapting as AI reshapes jobs, noting disconnect between the administration's plan and recent actions including significant cuts to research, workforce pipelines, and data infrastructure raising serious questions about readiness, with the problem being that the US cannot lead in AI by building faster and training slower.