Three months ago, President Biden issued a landmark executive order securing the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) and ensuring America leads the way in managing risk. This order strengthens the safety and security of AI, protects Americans' privacy, promotes equity and civil rights, stands up for consumers and workers, fosters innovation and competition, and strengthens America's reputation around the world. He ordered drastic actions to improve leadership.
Today, Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed will convene the White House AI Council, which is made up of senior officials from a wide range of federal departments. The agency reported that it had completed all of his 90-day actions imposed by the EO and advanced other important instructions the order imposed over a longer period of time.
Taken together, these activities represent significant progress in achieving the EO's mission of protecting Americans from the potential risks of AI systems while fostering innovation in AI and beyond. I am.visit ai.gov You can learn more.
Managing risks to safety and security
The executive order directed widespread action within 90 days to address some of AI's biggest threats to safety and security. These include establishing significant disclosure requirements for developers of the most powerful systems, assessing the risks of AI to critical infrastructure, and thwarting efforts by foreign actors to develop AI for harmful purposes. To mitigate these and other risks, agencies have:
- We used the Defense Production Act authorities to force developers of the most powerful AI systems to report critical information to the Department of Commerce, particularly the results of AI safety tests. These companies are now required to share this information about their most powerful AI systems, as well as report the large computing clusters on which these systems can be trained.
- It proposed a draft rule that would require U.S. cloud companies that provide computing power for foreign AI training to report that they are doing so. The Commerce Department's proposal, if finalized as proposed, would require cloud providers to alert the government when foreign customers train their most powerful models that could be used for malicious activity. It turns out.
- We have completed a risk assessment covering the use of AI in all critical infrastructure areas. Nine government agencies submitted risk assessments to the Department of Homeland Security, including the Department of Defense, Department of Transportation, Department of Treasury, and Department of Health and Human Services. These assessments will form the basis for the federal government's continued actions to ensure the United States stays ahead of the curve in safely integrating AI into critical aspects of society, such as the power grid.
Innovating AI for good
To capture the vast potential of AI and deepen America's lead in AI innovation, President Biden's executive orders will increase investment in AI innovation and create new resources to attract and train workers with AI expertise. I have given instructions on what to do. Here is the agency's performance in the past 90 days:
- We have launched a pilot version of National AI research resources—Promote broader innovation, competition, and fairer access to AI research. The pilot, managed by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), will build on the national infrastructure to provide researchers and students with computing power, data, software, access to open and proprietary AI models, and other AI training resources. This is the first step towards. These resources are provided by 11 federal agency partners and more than 25 private sector, nonprofit, and philanthropic partners.
- We launched the AI Talent Surge to accelerate the hiring of AI professionals across the federal government, including through a mass recruitment drive for data scientists. The AI and Technology Talent Task Force, created by President Biden's EO, is spearheading this hiring effort and is coordinating other important efforts to accelerate the hiring of AI talent. The Office of Personnel Management has granted federal agencies flexible hiring authority to hire AI talent for: Direct Employment Authority and Exception Service Authority. Government-wide technology talent programs such as Presidential Innovation Fellows, US Digital Corps, and US Digital Service will expand the hiring of AI talent across high-priority AI projects in 2024. For more information about AI Talent Surge, please visit the following website: ai.gov/apply.
- We launched the EducateAI initiative to help fund educators who create high-quality, inclusive AI education opportunities from K-12 to the undergraduate level. The launch of this initiative will help fulfill the Executive Order's mandate for NSF to prioritize AI talent development. This is essential to driving future AI innovation and ensuring that all Americans can benefit from the opportunities AI creates.
- Announcing funding for a new Regional Innovation Engine (NSF Engine) focused on advances in AI. For example, the Piedmont Triad Regenerative Medicine Engine, with an initial investment of $15 million over two years and up to $160 million over the next 10 years, will leverage the world's largest regenerative medicine cluster to develop initiatives such as leveraging AI. Create and expand clinical therapies. This announcement supports the Executive Order's directive that NSF fund and launch an AI-focused NSF Engine within 150 days.
- Established an AI Task Force at the Department of Health and Human Services to clarify regulations and develop policies to foster AI innovation in healthcare. For example, the task force will develop methods to evaluate AI-enabled tools and frameworks for the use of AI to accelerate drug development, strengthen public health, and improve health care delivery.The task force is already coordinating work towards publication. guiding principles To address racial bias in medical algorithms.
The table below summarizes many of the activities that federal agencies have completed in response to the Executive Order.
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