Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s Cybersecurity, IT, and Government Innovation Subcommittee, called out the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Wednesday for what she called its slow work in implementing the 2020 AI in Government Act. […]

The director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) said today that Federal privacy legislation must work in harmonization with Congress’ forthcoming legislation to create guardrails on artificial intelligence (AI) development. […]

The “No Artificial Intelligence Fake Replicas and Unauthorized Duplications (AI FRAUD) Act” – introduced this week by Reps. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., and Maria Salazar, R-Fla. – aims to protect Americans’ identities from misuse via AI. […]

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif. – alongside Reps. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, Don Beyer, D-Va., and Marcus Molinaro, R-N.Y. – this week introduced the Federal AI Risk Management Act, a bipartisan and bicameral bill to require U.S. Federal agencies and vendors to follow the AI risk management guidelines put forth by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). […]

The age of artificial intelligence (AI) is upon us. AI is everywhere, dominating headlines and conversations as it and machine learning (ML) technologies advance toward adoption at a rapid pace. […]

Experts from government and academia said this week that successful adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies depends on a host of factors including strong leadership on the technology front, along with a good understanding of the contents of data sets that are used to train AI applications. […]

The Aspen Institute’s US and Global Cybersecurity Groups released a new report on Tuesday that offers up recommendations on how to safely use AI in cybersecurity and steers organizations toward a “good place” where AI predominantly helps defenders. […]

When generative AI first made waves with the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, one major concern that arose within the Federal government and beyond was the idea that the tool would steal people’s jobs. Something akin to the opposite of that trend emerged today at a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. […]

As the United States continues its work on developing AI regulations, one industry expert said today that “radical collaboration” between tech companies and policymakers will be crucial to that process. […]

The Department of Labor (DoL) has tapped its Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) Louis Charlier to serve in the dual-hatted role of chief AI officer (CAIO), a department spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk today. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is searching for a chief data officer (CDO) who will also serve as the agency’s responsible AI official (RAIO) and chief AI officer (CAIO), according to a USAJOBS posting.  […]

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will share its recommendations on artificial intelligence (AI) accountability policy “soon,” NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson said in a 2023 year-in-review blog post.  […]

With the prevalence of AI technology becoming ubiquitous in daily life, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released a new paper warning of hackers looking to potentially manipulate or “poison” AI data sets for malicious purposes. […]

Reps. Don Beyer, D-Va., and Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., have introduced new legislation that aims to make artificial intelligence models more transparent by requiring the creators of these models to make certain information publicly available to consumers. […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is moving to reestablish a new version of its Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) advisory committee to take a look at how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies can boost communications network security. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has authorized a government-wide direct hire authority for artificial intelligence (AI) positions, in an effort to help with the AI hiring surge following President Biden’s recent AI executive order (EO). […]

A sampling of execs from some of the Federal government’s top IT and service vendors is showing consensus that artificial intelligence (AI) technologies will continue to be a major hot-button issue in government tech circles in 2024, with cybersecurity and workforce development also making strong showings in the new year.   […]

2023 was the year of artificial intelligence (AI), and MeriTalk can say without a shadow of a doubt that 2024 will be just as action-packed with Federal AI goodies.   […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced the appointment of Tess deBlanc-Knowles to the position of special assistant to the director for AI, effective on Dec. 12.   […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a new report highlighting the potential benefits of using AI and machine learning (ML) technologies to forecast the weather for natural disasters such as severe storms, hurricanes, and wildfires. […]

In order to “maintain the integrity of its merit review process,” the National Science Foundation (NSF) has released new guidelines on the use of generative AI for both proposers and reviewers.   […]

In 2021, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence concluded that the Pentagon’s AI talent deficit is one of the greatest impediments to the United States being AI-ready by the target date of 2025. The Department of Defense (DoD) identified cultivating a workforce with AI expertise as a strategic focus area in 2018, but a new report finds that the DoD can’t fully identify who is part of its AI workforce or which positions require personnel with AI skills. […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published draft guidance this week on evaluating differential privacy – a privacy-enhancing technology (PET) used in data analytics – to fulfill one of its tasks under President Biden’s recent artificial intelligence executive order (EO). […]

The White House on Tuesday gathered together more than a dozen Federal leaders across the government for its inaugural AI Council meeting. […]

Both NASA and the Department of Commerce (DoC) reported use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) technology at double and triple the rate of the other 18 civilian CFO Act agencies who claimed to be using the emerging technology, a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds. […]

In the past year alone, the Federal government has been thrown headlong into the hype cycle of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, a phenomenon a top tech official at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called an “AI tsunami.” […]

The growth of AI technology is coming on at a “fast and furious” pace, and Federal agencies need to buckle in and prepare themselves for the technology’s rapid proliferation, a panel of Federal agency chief information officers said this week. […]

Lawmakers and industry leaders on Tuesday highlighted ways the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) should seek to secure artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, starting with integrating the emerging technology into the agency’s existing cyber policies and guidelines. […]

A top White House cybersecurity official said Thursday that the administration’s “U.S. Cyber Trust Mark” program is on track to be released by the end of 2024. […]

Lawmakers and industry experts expressed concern this week that the Federal government will fail to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in a timely manner. […]