Expand the BRAIN Initiative by investing in a National Laboratory of Neurotechnology to understand how the brain works at a deeper level.
Applications of AI and ML for major social and scientific problems are often constrained by a lack of high-quality, publicly available data.
The next administration should create a Fair Artificial Intelligence Research & Regulation Bureau to ensure that AI benefits all Americans.
Create a program to help community-serving organizations tackle the technological and ethical challenges of developing AI systems.
The next administration should launch a public-private partnership to advance the research foundations of AI and its application at scale.
A proposal to introduce machine learning to triage scientific proposals at S&T agencies to save over $300 million annually.
The 2019 defense authorization act directed the Secretary of Defense to produce a definition of artificial intelligence (AI) by August 13, 2019 to help guide law and policy. But that was not done. Therefore “no official U.S. government definition of AI yet exists,” the Congressional Research Service observed in a newly updated report on the subject. But plenty […]
While many countries recognize freedom of speech as a fundamental value, every country also imposes some legal limits on free speech. A new report from the Law Library of Congress surveys the legal limitations on free expression in thirteen countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Germany, France, New Zealand, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning are already being used by the Department of Defense in operations in Iraq and Syria, and they have many potential uses in intelligence processing, military logistics, cyber defense, as well as autonomous weapon systems. The range of such applications for defense and intelligence is surveyed in a new […]
The field of artificial intelligence is habitually susceptible to exaggerated claims and expectations. But when it comes to new applications in health care, some of those claims may prove to be valid, says a new report from the JASON scientific advisory panel. “Overall, JASON finds that AI is beginning to play a growing role in […]