Recent reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has withheld from online public distribution include the following.
Identity Theft: Trends and Issues, January 16, 2014
Executive Order 13438: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq, January 24, 2014
Detention of U.S. Persons as Enemy Belligerents, January 23, 2014
Trends in Discretionary Spending, January 24, 2014
Abortion: Judicial History and Legislative Response, January 24, 2014
Overview of the Federal Tax System, January 23, 2014
International Trade and Finance: Key Policy Issues for the 113th Congress, Second Session, January 23, 2014
“Who is a Veteran?” — Basic Eligibility for Veterans’ Benefits, January 23, 2014
An Overview of Unconventional Oil and Natural Gas: Resources and Federal Actions, January 23, 2014
Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy, January 17, 2014
The European Union: Questions and Answers, January 15, 2014
North Korea: U.S. Relations, Nuclear Diplomacy, and Internal Situation, January 15, 2014
Iran Sanctions, January 15, 2014
The current lack of public trust in AI risks inhibiting innovation and adoption of AI systems, meaning new methods will not be discovered and new benefits won’t be felt. A failure to uphold high standards in the technology we deploy will also place our nation at a strategic disadvantage compared to our competitors.
Using the NIST as an example, the Radiation Physics Building (still without the funding to complete its renovation) is crucial to national security and the medical community. If it were to go down (or away), every medical device in the United States that uses radiation would be decertified within 6 months, creating a significant single point of failure that cannot be quickly mitigated.
The federal government can support more proactive, efficient, and cost-effective resiliency planning by certifying predictive models to validate and publicly indicate their quality.
We need a new agency that specializes in uncovering funding opportunities that were overlooked elsewhere. Judging from the history of scientific breakthroughs, the benefits could be quite substantial.