Biden Administration Funding Concerns House Republicans [Video]

Two congressional committees held dueling hearings on Artificial Intelligence Tuesday. However, only one committee appeared to hone in on the rapidly growing threat that the technology poses to conservatives: how the Biden administration could hijack AI to censor Americans.

The House Judiciary Select Weaponization Subcommittee held a hearing on a damning report that the Biden-led National Science Foundation (NSF) provided grants totaling $13 million to entities developing AI-generated tools to tackle so-called mis- and disinformation. In a concurrent hearing by the House Subcommittee on Research & Technology. However, in that concurrent hearing, all but one Republican refused to question the NSF Special Assistant to the Director of Artificial Intelligence on her agency’s ongoing efforts to fund programs that could lead to the censorship of dissenting American voices.

Fired-up Republicans, led by Weaponization Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), said the Biden administration’s efforts on AI sought to thwart the First Amendment. The subcommittee unearthed emails revealing that some NSF grantees …