Biden’s AI czar breaks down the midterms

Ben Buchanan, Biden’s former AI czar, is warning Democrats not to squander their chance to regulate the technology as they take charge of Congress next year. “I'm just very worried we're running out of time,” Buchanan told Brendan Bordelon, the host of Decoded by POLITICO, at an event held late last week by George Washington’s Mount Vernon museum in Alexandria, Virginia. In a wide-ranging interview, Buchanan — now a professor at John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and an adviser to top AI lab Anthropic — said he worries about a replay of the last time Democrats held the gavels. In 2023, then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer led a high-profile series of bipartisan AI talks that ultimately led to nothing. ----------------------------------------- Subscribe to our channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgjtvMmHXbutALaw9XzRkAg?view_as=subscriber Check out our video catalog: https://www.politico.com/video Follow POLITICO here: ➤ X: https://x.com/politico/ ➤ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/politico/ ➤ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/politico/