This transition document provides over 25 actionable recommendations on the future of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The next administration should help local communities reassert control over police use of surveillance technology.
The next administration should ensure that defendants can access digital evidence and protect fairness in criminal proceedings.
The next administration should establish a digital privacy task force within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The next administration should create a Fair Artificial Intelligence Research & Regulation Bureau to ensure that AI benefits all Americans.
The next administration should establish a Participatory Technology Assessment unit to ensure federal S&T decisions benefit society.
The next administration should launch national Place-Based Public-Private Partnerships for Innovation to supercharge American innovation.
Create a program to help community-serving organizations tackle the technological and ethical challenges of developing AI systems.
The next administration should take steps to streamline the patent application process and improve the innovation ecosystem.
The next administration and Congress should embed evaluation and evidence-building into stimulus legislation for efficient recovery.
The next administration should launch a public-private partnership to advance the research foundations of AI and its application at scale.
The next administration should protect third-party access to social platform data to ensure transparency and accountability.