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David Schweikert: “You could revolutionize the size and cost of this government…”

Featuring: David Schweikert, Republican | U.S. House, Arizona, District 1

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Published | Video Starts at 35:16

We did a hearing over in the Senate with the Joint Economic Committee on AI and we had a couple experts there saying you don't realize you could get rid of all these employees, you could do all this stuff with crowdsourcing this, You could revolutionize the size and cost of this government tomorrow [with AI and technology]. If we legalize the technology and use it now, you gotta deal with the army of lobbyists, the army of people from the bureaucracies who will knife us for just actually saying that. (35:16–35:32)

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