Meet the 72-year-old congressman going back to college to learn about AI

Rep. Don Beyer jokingly told Fox News Digital that it was "humbling" to be taking undergraduate courses to qualify for the machine learning degree he's seeking

Most of Beyer’s time is taken up representing the 8th Congressional District of Virginia, as a senior Democrat on the Joint Economic Committee and the Ways and Means Committee. But he is making time to take classes alongside young students in pursuit of a degree that will let him better understand one of the fastest-developing technologies in human history. Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital. 

"It was sort of humbling, after all these years of education in different universities, all that stuff, to realize I still had an enormous amount of undergraduate mathematics and computer science [to study] just to qualify for a graduate program," Beyer said. "But it's like planting a tree. It's just a long term hopeful thing."