Rep. Moran to hire Congress's only AI-dedicated staffer
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-10-21
Per Transformer, Rep. Nathaniel Moran is hiring an AI fellow for his personal staff — apparently the only House staffer recruited directly by a member to focus exclusively on AI. Moran introduced the AI Incident Reporting Act requiring frontier labs to report dangerous capabilities and security breaches.
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