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Congressional Artificial Intelligence Caucus

Summary

The Congressional Artificial Intelligence Caucus is a bipartisan House member organization that, according to its official site, informs members about AI's technological, economic, and social impacts; co-chairs listed are Donald S. Beyer, Michael T. McCaul, Jay Obernolte, and Doris O. Matsui.

Verified Facts

  • The official caucus site states that the Congressional Artificial Intelligence Caucus exists "to inform policymakers of the technological, economic, and social impacts of advances in AI and to ensure that rapid innovation in AI and related fields benefits Americans as fully as possible."1
  • The same page lists co-chairs Donald S. Beyer (VA-08), Michael T. McCaul (TX-10), Jay Obernolte (CA-23), and Doris O. Matsui (CA-07).1
  • The site describes the caucus as bringing together experts from academia, government, and the private sector.1

Historical Context

House Congressional Member Organizations are informal and do not report legislation. This caucus is the standing House forum parallel to the Senate AI Caucus. Several co-chairs also served on the separate 118th Congress House AI Task Force (Obernolte chaired that task force; Beyer was a member). Its published mission emphasizes informing members and capturing innovation benefits, not imposing a development pause.

Relevance to Open Source and Software Companies

House AI Caucus co-chair offices are a practical intake path for briefings on open-weight models, compute, copyright, and evaluation incidents. Bills that would regulate foundation-model transparency, environmental impacts, or federal AI risk management often move through members already in this caucus.

Relationships

  • ORG-CONGRESSIONAL-AI-CAUCUS cites SRC-HOUSE-AI-CAUCUS.
  • ORG-CONGRESSIONAL-AI-CAUCUS related_to PERSON-DON-BEYER.
  • ORG-CONGRESSIONAL-AI-CAUCUS related_to PERSON-MICHAEL-MCCAUL.
  • ORG-CONGRESSIONAL-AI-CAUCUS related_to PERSON-JAY-OBERNOLTE.
  • ORG-CONGRESSIONAL-AI-CAUCUS related_to PERSON-DORIS-MATSUI.

Sources

  1. SRC-HOUSE-AI-CAUCUS: Congressional Artificial Intelligence Caucus.

Research Debt

  • Add the House Administration Congressional Member Organization list (119th Congress) as a second source for leadership and staff contacts.
  • Capture a current membership roster from the caucus members page.
  • Document Beyer's later letters on frontier-model incidents from primary House press releases.

Document metadata

  • Last verified: 2026-09-17

  1. SRC-HOUSE-AI-CAUCUS — Official House caucus website. Self-reported mission and leadership. ↩↩↩