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The U.S. Department of Commerce announced today, on the 270-day mark since President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development of AI, the release of new guidance and software to help improve the safety, security and trustworthiness of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
The department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released three final guidance documents that were first released in April for public comment, as well as a draft guidance document from the U.S. AI Safety Institute that is intended to help mitigate risks. NIST is also releasing a software package designed to measure how adversarial attacks can degrade the performance of an AI system. In addition, Commerce’s U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a guidance update on patent subject matter eligibility to address innovation in critical and emerging technologies, including AI.
“For all its potentially transformational benefits, generative AI also brings risks that are significantly different from those we see with traditional software. These guidance documents and testing platform will inform software creators about these unique risks and help them develop ways to mitigate those risks while supporting innovation.” —Laurie E. Locascio, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director
Read the full Department of Commerce news release.
Read the White House fact sheet on administration-wide actions on AI.
Background: NIST Delivers 5 Products in Response to 2023 Executive Order on AI
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