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House Bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence

Summary

The House Bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence was an 118th Congress Speaker/Leader body co-chaired by Jay Obernolte and Ted Lieu that issued a December 2024 report with findings and recommendations on AI adoption and governance.

Verified Facts

  • Rep. Jay Obernolte's office states that Speaker Johnson and Leader Jeffries each appointed twelve members, that the Task Force was jointly led by Chairman Jay Obernolte (CA-23) and Co-Chair Ted Lieu (CA-36), and that it was charged with a comprehensive report of principles, recommendations, and bipartisan policy proposals.1
  • The same page says the report followed nearly 10 months of work, including more than a dozen hearings and roundtable discussions with government, industry, and civil society.1
  • The published roster includes Obernolte, Lieu, Issa, Eshoo, Hill, Clarke, Cloud, Foster, Dunn, Bonamici, Cline, Bera, Cammack, Beyer, Franklin, Ocasio-Cortez, Steel, Stevens, Burlison, Jacobs, Laurel Lee, Foushee, McCormick, and Pettersen.1

Historical Context

Unlike the standing Congressional AI Caucus, the Task Force was a time-bounded 118th Congress assignment created by House leadership. Several members (including Obernolte and Beyer) also co-chair or serve in the caucus. The report's published framing is continued U.S. leadership in AI innovation with "guardrails" against emerging threats. It is not a pause-or-ban program. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, later co-announcer of Sanders's 2026 data-center moratorium, is listed as a Task Force member.

Relevance to Open Source and Software Companies

The Task Force report is the House counterpart to the Senate AI Working Group roadmap: a committee-spanning catalog of education, health, IP, national-security, and governance recommendations. Open-source model hosts, dataset providers, and evaluation orgs appear in those headings mainly as innovation infrastructure and as potential subjects of transparency or IP rules, not as the primary targets of a compute moratorium.

Relationships

  • ORG-HOUSE-AI-TASK-FORCE cites SRC-HOUSE-AI-TASK-FORCE-2024.
  • ORG-HOUSE-AI-TASK-FORCE related_to PERSON-JAY-OBERNOLTE.
  • ORG-HOUSE-AI-TASK-FORCE related_to PERSON-TED-LIEU.
  • ORG-HOUSE-AI-TASK-FORCE related_to PERSON-DON-BEYER.
  • ORG-HOUSE-AI-TASK-FORCE related_to PERSON-ALEXANDRIA-OCASIO-CORTEZ.

Sources

  1. SRC-HOUSE-AI-TASK-FORCE-2024: The House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Final Report.

Research Debt

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  • Last verified: 2026-09-17

  1. SRC-HOUSE-AI-TASK-FORCE-2024 — Official House announcement page. Roster and charter as stated by the co-chair's office; pair with the Speaker-office PDF of the final report. ↩↩↩