Regulatory Consulting at Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC)

Overview

⚠️ DO NOT CONFUSE WITH: the congressional ‘Bipartisan House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence’ (chaired by Reps. Jay Obernolte and Ted Lieu, which released a 273-page AI report in December 2024) — that is a body of Congress, not this think tank. See Notes below for detail.

The Bipartisan Policy Center is a Washington think tank built around a distinctive method: convening credible voices from across the political spectrum to find policy common ground, rather than advocating from a fixed ideological position. Note for accuracy: BPC (the think tank) is a separate organization from the Bipartisan House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, the congressional body chaired by Reps. Jay Obernolte and Ted Lieu that released a 273-page AI report in December 2024 — the two are easily confused but institutionally distinct. BPC’s own AI work is anchored in its Energy Program, which in April 2025 launched a dedicated AI and Energy Task Force bringing together tech leaders, power producers, utilities, scholars, and NGOs to shape federal policy at the intersection of AI-driven electricity demand and grid reliability. BPC also produces a recurring ‘AI Insights for Policy Makers’ briefing series and maintains a body of work on AI and national security.

AI-Focused Regulatory Work

BPC’s AI and Energy Task Force places it squarely inside one of the most consequential and bipartisan-friendly AI policy questions of the decade: how the U.S. builds enough power to support the AI buildout without sacrificing grid reliability or offloading costs onto ordinary ratepayers. As Tanya Das, BPC’s director of AI and energy technology policy, put it, ‘AI is transforming industries, and our energy infrastructure must keep up’ — and the Task Force’s priorities (electricity demand and grid reliability, smart bipartisan policy design, U.S. leadership in the AI-powered economy) read as a deliberately depoliticized framing of a debate that elsewhere splits sharply along partisan lines. BPC’s April 2026 ‘Q1 AI Insights for Policy Makers’ briefing illustrates the center’s broader approach: rather than take a side on AI’s labor-market impact, it synthesizes the range of expert forecasts — on average, experts project 18% of U.S. work hours will be assisted by generative AI by 2030 (up from roughly 2% today), while the median white-collar job-growth projection is just 2% between 2025 and 2030 versus a pre-existing trend of 6.8%, with one in four experts predicting outright job losses — and argues that policy needs to be robust to that wide range of plausible outcomes rather than betting on the most optimistic scenario. BPC also maintains a National Security program publishing on AI’s implications for defense and intelligence. For a directory reader, BPC is valuable precisely because its AI work is calibrated to build cross-partisan consensus — useful both as a policy resource and as a barometer of what AI-and-energy or AI-and-labor policies might actually be passable in a divided Congress.

Notable AI Policy Work

• Launched an AI and Energy Task Force (April 2025) composed of tech leaders, power producers, utilities, scholars, and NGOs to shape bipartisan federal policy on AI-driven electricity demand and grid reliability.
• Publishes a recurring ‘AI Insights for Policy Makers’ briefing series (e.g., Q1 2026) synthesizing expert forecasts on AI capability growth and labor-market impact for a non-technical policymaker audience.
• Maintains a body of work on ‘Artificial Intelligence and National Security,’ addressing AI’s implications for defense and intelligence as a federal priority.
• Led by Tanya Das (Director of AI and Energy Technology Policy) and David R. Hill (EVP, Energy Program) on the AI-and-energy portfolio specifically.
• Distinct from, but occasionally confused with, the congressional Bipartisan House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence — verify which entity a source is referring to before publishing.

Thought Leadership

1. BPC Launches AI and Energy Task Force to Shape Federal Policy
   Announces BPC’s Task Force bringing tech, energy, and policy leaders together to develop bipartisan policy on AI-driven electricity demand and grid reliability.
2. AI and Energy Task Force (program page)
   BPC’s ongoing AI-and-energy policy priorities: electricity demand, grid reliability, and U.S. competitiveness in the AI-powered economy.
3. Q1 AI Insights for Policy Makers (April 2026)
   A policymaker-facing digest of expert AI-capability and labor-market forecasts, emphasizing the wide range of plausible outcomes policy should prepare for.
4. Artificial Intelligence and National Security
   BPC’s analysis of AI’s implications for U.S. defense and intelligence priorities.

Clients

Nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank; no commercial clients. Convenes tech companies, utilities, power producers, scholars, and NGOs through its Task Force model and engages congressional offices directly on bipartisan AI-and-energy legislation.