CIV: Coordination by Interagency AI Committee (Title LI, Sec. 5103)
The first body within the Initiative Office is an Interagency Committee tasked with providing coordination of Federal AI research and development activities as well as education and workforce training activities across the government. This Interagency Committee is to be co-chaired by the Director of OSTP and a representative from the Department of Commerce, the National Science Foundation (NSF), or the Department of Energy on an annual, rotating basis.
Within 2 years of the passage of the NDAA, the Committee is to develop a strategic plan for artificial intelligence that establishes goals, priorities, and metrics for guiding and evaluating how the agencies carrying out the Initiative will prioritize areas of AI research and development, examines long-term funding for interdisciplinary AI research, and supports research on ethical, legal, environmental, safety, security, bias, and other issues related to AI and society. The Committee will further promote the availability of standardized, representative, and privacy-protected data sets for AI research and development as well as the computing, networking, and data facilities necessary to achieve the National AI Initiative’s goals.
CIV: Coordination by Interagency AI Committee (Title LI, Sec. 5103)
The first body within the Initiative Office is an Interagency Committee tasked with providing coordination of Federal AI research and development activities as well as education and workforce training activities across the government. This Interagency Committee is to be co-chaired by the Director of OSTP and a representative from the Department of Commerce, the National Science Foundation (NSF), or the Department of Energy on an annual, rotating basis.
Within 2 years of the passage of the NDAA, the Committee is to develop a strategic plan for artificial intelligence that establishes goals, priorities, and metrics for guiding and evaluating how the agencies carrying out the Initiative will prioritize areas of AI research and development, examines long-term funding for interdisciplinary AI research, and supports research on ethical, legal, environmental, safety, security, bias, and other issues related to AI and society. The Committee will further promote the availability of standardized, representative, and privacy-protected data sets for AI research and development as well as the computing, networking, and data facilities necessary to achieve the National AI Initiative’s goals.