HILL STAFF VIEWS: Hill GOPers More Likely than Dems to Use AI at Work

Everybody it seems is talking these days about Artificial Intelligence (AI), and whether it can usher in a new golden age of human achievement or provide aspiring totalitarians with a tool of control of which Stalin and Chairman Mao could only dream.

Congressional staffers are talking about AI, too, and, according to the results of the latest CNCT Capitol Pulse poll, it looks like aides to Republicans are more likely to give the emerging advanced technology giant a try on the job than are Democrats.

More than half, 56 percent, of the respondents overall said they use AI “regularly” or “sometimes,” with 44 percent declaring they do not do so. Twenty-nine percent of the regular users are Republicans, compared to just 16 percent who are Democrats.

Among those who do use AI, fully 32 percent of senior GOP policy aides use it, compared to only 24 percent of the junior policy aides who do so. On the Democratic side, 20 percent of the senior policy types regularly use AI, compared to 11 percent of the younger policy operatives.

Hmmm, do the newbies know something we grey-beards have somehow missed?

On the Senate versus House side comparison, 60 percent of the No responders work in the upper chamber, versus 40 percent in the House. Among the regular users, the House outdistances the Senate 27 percent to 10 percent.

CNCT’S TAKEAWAY: GOP policy staff are the most likely to use AI and Dems over 30 are the least likely. Big splits between House vs. Senate and Dem vs. GOP women.

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