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Revolutionary Advances in AI Won’t Wait

When it comes to AI, the Department of Defense is still moving too slowly to make meaningful and sustainable innovation.

08.30.23 | 6 min read
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Issue Brief
FY24 NDAA AI Tracker

FAS is launching this live blog post to track all proposals around artificial intelligence (AI) that have been included in the NDAA.

07.18.23 | 2 min read
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Issue Brief
Six Policy Ideas for the National AI Strategy

With U.S. companies creating powerful frontier AI models, the federal government must guide this technology’s growth toward public benefit and risk mitigation. Here are six ways to do that.

07.12.23 | 4 min read
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How Do OpenAI’s Efforts To Make GPT-4 “Safer” Stack Up Against The NIST AI Risk Management Framework?

Before releasing a new, powerful system like GPT-4 to millions of users, we must ask: “How can we know that this system is safe, trustworthy, and reliable enough to be released?”

05.11.23 | 9 min read
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day one project
Policy Memo
Creating Auditing Tools for AI Equity

To address problems of algorithmic harm, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) should invest in the development of comprehensive AI auditing tools, and federal agencies with the charge of protecting civil rights and liberties should collaborate with NIST to develop these tools and push for comprehensive system audits.

04.11.23 | 10 min read
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AI for science: creating a virtuous circle of discovery and innovation

In this interview, Tom Kalil discusses the opportunities for science agencies and the research community to use AI/ML to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and technological advancement. Q.  Why do you think that science agencies and the research community should be paying more attention to the intersection between AI/ML and science? Recently, researchers have […]

08.22.22 | 9 min read
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The Magic Laptop Thought Experiment

One of the main goals of Kalil’s Corner is to share some of the things I’ve learned over the course of my career about policy entrepreneurship. Below is an FAQ on a thought experiment that I think is useful for policy entrepreneurs, and how the thought experiment is related to a concept I call “shared agency.” Q.  What […]

08.08.22 | 10 min read
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day one project
Policy Memo
Creating an AI Testbed for Government

The U.S. should establish a testbed for government-procured artificial intelligence (AI) models used to provide services to Americans.

01.19.22 | 1 min read
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day one project
Policy Memo
An Institute for Scalable Heterogeneous Computing

Establish a Manufacturing USA Institute under NIST with the goal of pursuing advanced packaging for scalable heterogeneous computing.

07.16.21 | 2 min read
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day one project
Policy Memo
A National Cloud for Conducting Disinformation Research at Scale

Online disinformation continues to evolve and threaten national security, federal elections, public health, and other critical U.S. sectors.

06.29.21 | 1 min read
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day one project
Policy Memo
Enabling Responsible U.S. Leadership on Global AI Regulation

The Biden-Harris Administration should set clear priorities championing a collective digital rights agenda.

06.25.21 | 2 min read
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day one project
Policy Memo
A National Framework for AI Procurement

As AI applications for public use have proliferated, there has been a large uptick in challenges associated with AI safety and fairness.

06.09.21 | 1 min read
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