The U.S. House of Representatives is reversing course on a high‑profile digital ban and will begin a managed, one‑year pilot to give thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot — a move framed as institutional modernization but one that raises immediate questions about tenancy...
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Starting this fall, the U.S. House of Representatives will begin a managed, year‑long pilot giving thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot, a dramatic policy reversal from the chamber’s 2024 ban and a consequential test case for how democracies adopt generative AI while trying to...
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