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White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Launches AI.gov

May 6th, 2021 / in AI, Announcements, CRA, pipeline, research horizons / by Helen Wright

Yesterday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative Office launched the new AI.gov website. 

This website is the home of the National AI Initiative Act of 2020 and as stated in the press release “the connection point to ongoing activities to advance U.S. leadership in AI from policy documents and strategies, to applications of AI, to the latest news and updates from the agencies and federal advisory boards helping shape the activities of the National AI Initiative.” 

National AI Initiative Act of 2020 became law on January 1, 2021, providing for a coordinated program across the entire Federal government to accelerate AI research and application for the Nation’s economic prosperity and national security. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and it’s parent organization the Computing Research Association (CRA) provided significant input to policymakers drafting provisions for the National AI Initiative Act of 2020. In 2018-2019, the CCC brought together over 100 members of the research community, led by Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California) and Bart Selman (Cornell University) to come up with a research roadmap for AI. The completed Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap, A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US, was released in August 2019. 

Additionally in the space, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, a congressionally-chartered committee charged with reviewing AI and related technologies and making recommendations to address U.S. national security and defense needs, released its final report in March 2021. The “report rightly highlights the key importance of increased federal investments in fundamental research” as was noted by CRA’s Government Affairs Director Peter Harsha and CCC Executive Council member Nadya Bliss in this CRA Government Affairs blog from earlier this year. “In a focus on federal approaches to bringing emerging technologies closer to commercialization or deployment, we can’t afford to lose the support for the fundamental research enabling those technologies (and many others we don’t yet know about).“

As the AI momentum clearly continues to grow, AI.gov will expand its resources and offerings to serve the many communities interested in AI research, development, deployment, and governance. 

Disclaimer: Posts on this blog report on happenings, opportunities, and issues that arise in the broad computing research community, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the CCC or the National Science Foundation.


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