In a follow-up to President Biden’s Govt Order on AI final yr, the usSecretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo has introduced the formation of the U.S. AI Security Institute Consortium (AISIC).

AISIC will convey collectively over 200 AI creators and customers, teachers, authorities and business researchers, and civil society organizations, in response to the Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Know-how (NIST). 

In response to NIST, AISIC is part of the U.S. AI Security Institute and its focus will probably be engaged on the actions outlined within the President’s Govt Order.

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“The U.S. authorities has a big function to play in setting the requirements and growing the instruments we have to mitigate the dangers and harness the immense potential of synthetic intelligence. President Biden directed us to drag each lever to perform two key targets: set security requirements and defend our innovation ecosystem. That’s exactly what the U.S. AI Security Institute Consortium is ready as much as assist us do,” mentioned Raimondo.

NIST has outlined six important areas that the consortium will concentrate on. These embrace establishing an area for sharing AI information, partaking in interdisciplinary analysis, prioritizing analysis and analysis necessities that can permit for a greater understanding of AI’s impacts on society, figuring out approaches for collaborative improvement of know-how, inventing mechanisms for streamlining company enter, and enabling evaluation and analysis of AI techniques.

AISIC contains over 200 founding members, together with Amazon, Apple, GitHub, Google, IBM, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Salesforce, and extra. 

Various universities are additionally concerned, together with Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Duke, NYU, Princeton, and Purdue, to call a number of. A number of open-source foundations are members of the consortium as effectively, resembling Free Software program Basis, Linux Basis, and Accountable AI Institute. 

“AI is shifting the world into very new territory,” mentioned Laurie E. Locascio, Below Secretary of Commerce for Normal and Know-how and Director of NIST. “And like each new know-how, or each new software of know-how, we have to know the right way to measure its capabilities, its limitations, its impacts. That’s the reason NIST brings collectively these unimaginable collaborations of representatives from business, academia, civil society and the federal government, all coming collectively to deal with challenges which might be of nationwide significance.”