Report: Most Washington Officials Unfamiliar With AI, No Strategy for Agents
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-09-03
Sharing a report by deanwball (Scholars' Stage), the author notes it's 'insane but not surprising': over two weeks of conversations across a dozen+ US government offices, multiple foreign missions in DC, and cybersecurity lawyers, a majority were unfamiliar with the HuggingFace incident, and the rest had no comment — or strategy — on the rise of self-sovereign agents.
The reposter adds that in their own government meetings, baseline AI knowledge was strikingly low — policymakers still aren't taking AI seriously.
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