TechCongress is a Washington, DC-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that bridges the gap between the technology sector and federal policymaking by embedding skilled technologists directly in Congress. Through its Congressional Innovation Fellowship (early-career) and Senior Congressional Innovation Fellowship (mid-career), fellows serve as technology policy advisors to Members and Committees of the House and Senate. An AI Safety Fellowship also places mid-to-late career AI experts at federal agencies implementing AI safety policy. The organization is fiercely nonpartisan, placing fellows equally in Democratic and Republican offices, and refuses all corporate and tech company funding.
TechCongress is a Washington, DC-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that bridges the gap between the technology sector and federal policymaking by embedding skilled technologists directly in Congress. Through its Congressional Innovation Fellowship (early-career) and Senior Congressional Innovation Fellowship (mid-career), fellows serve as technology policy advisors to Members and Committees of the House and Senate. An AI Safety Fellowship also places mid-to-late career AI experts at federal agencies implementing AI safety policy. The organization is fiercely nonpartisan, placing fellows equally in Democratic and Republican offices, and refuses all corporate and tech company funding.
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TechCongress operates on the premise that the quality of technology policy depends heavily on whether policymakers and their staff have genuine technical literacy. By placing engineers, computer scientists, and AI experts directly inside Congress and federal agencies, TechCongress creates a sustained pipeline of technical expertise into the institutions that regulate powerful technologies. Fellows who draft legislation, conduct hearings, and advise members from a position of deep technical knowledge can produce more targeted, effective, and less harmful AI governance than generalist staff. Over time, as alumni convert into permanent Congressional staff (35 to date), this expertise becomes institutionalized. For AI safety specifically, the AI Safety Fellowship directly embeds experts at agencies implementing AI safety executive orders, accelerating the government's capacity to manage frontier AI risks. The theory is that better-informed legislators and regulators are a necessary prerequisite for the kind of robust, technically grounded AI oversight that could meaningfully reduce catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems.
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