Michigan U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin called Friday for the U.S. government to pursue a Manhattan Project-like effort to unite the brightest minds on artificial intelligence, work with the private sector and "get our ass in gear" to win the tech arms race with China.

On national security, the Holly Democrat proposed reorienting the government to protect Americans at home from cyber attacks by training a Cyber National Guard and not being "scared" to use the country's sophisticated hacking tools to "hit our enemies where it hurts."

"If China is going to target our power grid and local water systems, we need to take offline the servers they are using to do so," said Slotkin, a former top Pentagon official who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

In a speech delivered at the Council on

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