The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is planning a series of hearings in the coming weeks and months to bring his members up to speed on artificial intelligence, as Congress faces a growing number of calls to regulate the emerging technology.

Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., told Fox News Digital that the Senate has plenty to learn about AI, and that he has several hearings in mind.

"I'm hoping every time we come back here for a work period, that we're going to have a hearing taking a different topic related to AI up, so that we can get just a good sense of where the technology is today, where it's going in the future. What are some of the opportunities that it presents, as well as some of the threats?" the senator explained.

"We're going to hear from a broad cross-section of folks – from the private sector, from the nonprofit sector, government officials," he said. "We're going to hear from folks who are steeped in the technology, who can talk from that perspective."

Peters said he also wants to hear from business leaders on how they'll use AI, as well as others who worry about how it might be used.