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Emerging Technology
Blog
AI in Action: Recommendations for AI Policy in Health, Education, and Labor

…the U.S. can lead in advancing ethical, high-impact applications of AI. Education The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) co-leads the Alliance for Learning Innovation (ALI), a coalition of cross-sector organizations…

10.05.23 | 7 min read
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Emerging Technology
Blog
Risk and Reward in Peer Review

…piloting this approach on a series of proposals in the life sciences that we have collected for Focused Research Organizations, a new type of non-profit research organization designed to tackle…

10.02.23 | 6 min read
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FAS
Press release
FAS Launches ‘FRO-casting’ Tournament on Metaculus to Solicit Ideas for Focused Research Organizations (FROs)

…program applies an expected value the forecasting methodology developed by FAS and Metaculus to proposals for Focused Research Organizations (FROs) in the life sciences, sourced by Convergent Research. FROs are…

10.02.23 | 2 min read
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Environment
day one project
Policy Memo
Towards a Well-Being Economy: Establishing an American Mental Wealth Observatory

…product (GDP). While the concept of GDP had been established decades earlier, it was during a 1960 meeting of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development that economic growth became…

09.18.23 | 10 min read
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Environment
Issue Brief
Seeing Through the Haze: How the federal government does (and doesn’t) work to reduce public exposure to wildland fire smoke

…(DOE, DoD, DHS, NIST ) agencies all take part in wildland fire smoke research, with frequent collaboration across agencies and offices (e.g. FASMEE and FIREX-AQ, below). In addition, federal agencies…

09.13.23 | 24 min read
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