Warsh’s US Fed AI task force draws fire over his picks from senators, academic
By Neil Roland ( July 17, 2026, 20:34 GMT | Insight) -- US Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s new artificial intelligence task force drew fire for its composition from two Senate Democrats and a Fed historian. Warsh pushed back and said his three-member panel, whose members were announced this month, would be merely advisory in nature and that all its recommendations would be filtered through the 19 Fed policy-makers. Senators Tina Smith of Minnesota and Raphael Warnock of Georgia faulted the Fed’s task force at a Senate Banking Committee hearing for lacking anyone with a labor perspective.US Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s new artificial intelligence task force drew fire for its composition from two Senate Democrats and a Fed historian....
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