Congressional AI proponent Ted Lieu pushes back on ChatGPT restrictions placed by House administrative office

Rep. Ted Lieu, the California Democrat who’s a major proponent of artificial intelligence policymaking in Congress, pushed back against the House Chief Administrative Office’s (CAO) new guardrails around the use of popular generative AI tool ChatGPT, telling FedScoop this week that congressional staff should be free to use AI tools for any purposes they see fit.

Earlier this week, Chief Administrative Officer Catherine L. Szpindor sent a memo to all House staff saying that offices are only authorized to use the paid version of the AI tool known as ChatGPT Plus, which has a…