Elon Musk was meeting with House Energy and Commerce Republicans on Thursday morning to discuss energy issues and artificial intelligence, according to a person with direct knowledge of the session.
It comes a day after the head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency initiative met with Senate Republicans — many of them on the Commerce Committee — on similar issues, including bolstering competitiveness with China.
Musk has taken a step back from his Trump administration duties in recent weeks after leading a major slashing of federal agencies.
Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) has taken a keen interest in AI — including proposing a 10-year moratorium on state and local regulation of AI models in his portion of Republicans’ megabill that passed the House on Thursday morning, and honing in on ways to tackle the technology’s high level of energy use.
