Members of Congress typically aren’t the tech savviest bunch, but dozens of lawmakers say artificial intelligence is now a part of their life.
“It’s good for research,” Republican Rep. Mark Alford of Missouri told NOTUS of X’s Grok. “And I say, ‘Please cite your sources.’ As a former journalist, it’s very important to me to have sources.”
“I use it as I use a calculator. I’m not a mathematician, and I’m not a researcher either,” Alford added. He said he recently used Grok to help him get up to speed for a congressional hearing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “I’m hip, for a 61-year-old guy,” he said.