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Policy Memo
A National Program for Building Artificial Intelligence within Communities

Create a program to help community-serving organizations tackle the technological and ethical challenges of developing AI systems.

12.29.20 | 2 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Advancing American AI through National Public-Private Partnerships for AI Research

The next administration should launch a public-private partnership to advance the research foundations of AI and its application at scale.

12.21.20 | 1 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Leveraging Machine Learning To Reduce Cost & Burden of Reviewing Research Proposals at S&T Agencies

A proposal to introduce machine learning to triage scientific proposals at S&T agencies to save over $300 million annually.

08.28.20 | 6 min read
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Blog
Artificial Intelligence and National Security, and More from CRS

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 […]

12.02.19 | 2 min read
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Blog
Limits on Free Expression: An International View

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 […]

07.28.19 | 1 min read
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Blog
Pentagon Pursues Artificial Intelligence

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 […]

05.01.18 | 2 min read
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Blog
JASON: Artificial Intelligence for Health Care

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 […]

02.01.18 | 2 min read
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