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House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee moves into executive session during cybersecurity and AI training
Summary
During a livestreamed training with Norwich University Applied Research Institutes, the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee voted to enter executive session to discuss sensitive information related to cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and information warfare.
A member of the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee said the panel would move into a closed session during a livestreamed training with Norwich University Applied Research Institutes, then called for a vote to do so.
The training covered “cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and information warfare,” and the committee announced it would take its final module in executive session to discuss information the committee said could pose a risk to state property or security if publicly disclosed.
“A member of the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee” opened the segment by saying, “We are taking some training today, on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and information warfare, with the Norwich University Applied Research Institutes.” The same speaker then said, “for the last module of our training this morning, we are going to go into executive session,” and directed the clerk to lead the process. The committee member said the session was to discuss “sensitive information that if disclosed would pose a risk to state property or security.”
The committee then called for the question. When asked for those in favor of calling the committee into executive session, members responded aloud; a committee member audibly answered, “Aye.” The committee’s clerk was identified as the person who would lead the executive session process. After the vote, a committee member said, “We are now in executive session, Jack.”
The transcript records the committee’s decision to enter executive session but does not record details of what was discussed in the closed session, nor does it identify the individual who made the motion or any second. No statutory citation or specific executive-session authority was identified in the public portion of the record. The meeting portion on the public livestream ended with the committee entering executive session and the clerk taking the lead on the closed portion.
