AI Risks and Opportunities: a White House Note from the Biden Administration and the National Institute of Artificial Intelligence (NonlineAIG)

Ahead of the Biden administration’s meeting with top industry executives, the White House announced more funding and policy guidance for developing responsible artificial intelligence.

The administration said that the steps build on their strong record of leadership to ensure technology improves the lives of the American people and to break new ground in the federal government effort to advance a cohesive and comprehensive approach to AI-related risks and opportunities. The evaluation will allow the models to be evaluated by thousands of community partners and experts, but there is no mention of what the model evaluation will include.

Federal regulators and Congress have announced a fresh focus on AI over the last few weeks. The warning was issued in April by the Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Federal Protection Bureau, Justice Department, and Employment Opportunity Commission.

Participants will be awarded points in a way that will encourage them to test for bugs and bad behavior from the artificial intelligence systems. The event will be carried out in consultation with Microsoft, nonprofit SeedAI, the AI Vulnerability Database, and Humane Intelligence, a nonprofit created by data and social scientist Rumman Chowdhury. She previously led a group at Twitter working on ethics and machine learning, and hosted a bias bounty that uncovered bias in the social network’s automatic photo cropping.