# Obama pushes Jeffries to move AI oversight to center of agenda: Report > Source: > Published: 2026-09-13 15:59:39+00:00 Former President Obama reportedly urged House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) to make AI oversight a central tenet of his caucus’s agenda earlier this week. Obama told Jeffries at a Thursday fundraiser that Democratic lawmakers should develop a framework for a “public conversation” on the technology if they take back the House, The New York…