mason university in northern virginia, where you towards a masters degree in machine learning. his goal to one day apply his knowledge to artificial intelligence to his work in congress, especially as technology continues to evolve rapid rate. a member of the house science space and technology committee, it s four more undergraduate math and computer science courses before starting his graduate degree in 2024. joining us now, congressman myers, a member of the newly formed congressional artificial intelligence caucus. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. tell me what got you into a eye to begin with? i have always been sort of a science nerd my whole life. when i joined the congress eight years ago and has to go on the science committee they left and said i was the first person ever asked to be on it. but it has been wonderful experience [laughter] we re dealing with all the fascinating experience going on in space, the medicine.
science nerd my whole life. when i joined the congress eight years ago and has to go on the science committee they left and said i was the first person ever asked to be on it. but it has been wonderful experience [laughter] we re dealing with all the fascinating experience going on in space, the medicine. i m particularly impressed by the possibilities of machine learning, artificial intelligence, to see that earns an immense amount of data we create but that we are not that we can t see just with our human 00s. and all science s cause and effect. discerning those patterns. i tried to take an online course in ai through a through coursera, and it overwhelmed me, i don t have enough math background. when i found out they would
willing to go to jail every week on this issue? why are you? i read about greta doneberg. she s on the spectrum. she has aspergers. she s called out her super power and she s right. there s something about the way she focuses and talks about this crisis. she studies. she s a science nerd. when she studied the science and saw what was happening, smee reshe realized we re in the middle of a real crisis. she looked around and nobody was behaving appropriately. it traumatized her. when i read that, i knew that greta had seen the truth. she said, we have to get out of our comfort zone. we have to stop behaving like business as usual. i thought, being a celebrity, i have a big platform, especially with a hit series behind me. i ve got to do more than drive an electric car and get rid of plastics and all of that. that s a good starting place.