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Chairman frames hearing as a choice: AI and quantum could lift productivity or upend work
Summary
In a committee hearing, the chairman pressed witnesses on whether AI, quantum computing and robotics will deliver a productivity miracle amid an aging population or cause widespread job disruption, urging flexible policy guardrails and follow-up written responses for the record.
The chairman opened the session by warning that U.S. demographic trends — fewer 18‑year‑olds and roughly double the number of older adults compared with 20 years ago — create an urgent policy choice: harness automation to raise productivity or risk disruptive job losses.
He told panelists he favored more federal investment in quantum research than was provided through the CHIPS Act and asked witnesses to explain where quantum and AI stand today. ‘‘Are we on the cusp of a productivity miracle…
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