News U.S. Federal Agencies Issue Ambitious Roadmap For AI Development

[Admin]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Computing Community Consortium laid out the plans and roadmaps for standardizing and developing AI so that the United States can maintain leadership in this transformative technology.

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[coolitic]

Color me uneasy

 

[bit_user]

The executive order directed NIST to develop a plan that would: "ensure that technical standards minimize vulnerability to attacks from malicious actors and reflect Federal priorities for innovation, public trust, and public confidence in systems that use AI technologies; and develop international standards to promote and protect those priorities."

Admirable goals. However, I'm skeptical they'll put the necessary funding behind it.

Also, NIST isn't really the first agency that comes to mind, in regards to minimizing vulnerability, and increasing public trust & confidence in AI. I'd think you want someone like DARPA to take the lead on those initiatives and provide a set of recommendations. NIST could then take those and work with industry to produce the relevant standards.

 

[bit_user]

Color me uneasy

Yeah, the likely pitfall is that easy stuff that industry is already doing (like face recognition and other surveillance technologies) is likely to consume most of the resources.