The Director of NIST is tasked with soliciting input on AI regulation from academic researchers, private sector experts, public sector laboratories and other stakeholders as well as outside experts like social scientists, lawyers, and technology ethicists. NIST is also directed to ensure that it provides the opportunity for public comment on these guidelines and best practices.
I flag this one as a way for the community to have influence over the direction of the conversation in government. As with other government interaction, the probability of success is very small but the payoff potentially very large; for those of us with concerns that the military or a large corporation might develop AGI first, this is the kind of opening for which we need to look. Standards do not provide control, but they do provide a Schelling point and can bias the entire field in a good or bad direction as a consequence.
CIV: Stakeholder outreach (Title LIII, Sec. 5302)
The Director of NIST is tasked with soliciting input on AI regulation from academic researchers, private sector experts, public sector laboratories and other stakeholders as well as outside experts like social scientists, lawyers, and technology ethicists. NIST is also directed to ensure that it provides the opportunity for public comment on these guidelines and best practices.
I flag this one as a way for the community to have influence over the direction of the conversation in government. As with other government interaction, the probability of success is very small but the payoff potentially very large; for those of us with concerns that the military or a large corporation might develop AGI first, this is the kind of opening for which we need to look. Standards do not provide control, but they do provide a Schelling point and can bias the entire field in a good or bad direction as a consequence.