On Monday, California Independent Rep. Kevin Kiley spoke on NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas Reports. He named the central AI challenge as keeping systems consistent with people’s priorities and under people’s direction, and he urged the federal government to fund and coordinate work with scientists, universities, and companies on that task.

Kiley described the task as highly complex and said success would be hard to verify because systems might mislead observers about their consistency. He added that America retaining its lead, achieving that consistency, and reaching expected future abilities would likely yield the most favorable outcome for all.