Chief AI Officers are to coordinate their agency’s use of AI, promote AI innovation, and manage risks. Image: VideoFlow/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe CIO Council has previewed the next steps under the Biden administration’s recent executive order on the use of artificial intelligence by federal agencies, including the role of the newly created Chief AI Officer position.
Those officials are to “hold primary responsibility in their agency for coordinating their agency’s use of AI, promoting AI innovation in their agency, and managing risks from their agency’s use of AI. Agencies have flexibility to either create a brand-new position to fill this role or designate an existing official to perform the Chief AI Officer’s responsibilities—provided the official has significant expertise in AI,” it says.
Those officials are to collaborate with other C-Suite level offices that in some cases already have involvement with AI-related issues and “fill in the gaps” in areas such as mitigating discrimination resulting from the use of AI and “establishing processes for individuals to appeal harms caused by government AI.”
Other points include that agencies:
* will not need to implement the identified AI risk management requirements every time AI is used, but only when it is used “to control or meaningfully influence the outcomes of consequential actions or decisions.”
* must “ensure that adequate safeguards and oversight mechanisms are in place before generative AI is used . . . agencies should explore limited access policies to specific generative AI services based on specific risk assessments rather than implementing across the board bans.”
* should “use existing processes wherever possible, like the Authorization to Operate process, to assess, manage, evaluate, and continuously monitor” risks from use of AI to the “efficacy, safety, equity, fairness, transparency, accountability, appropriateness, or lawfulness of a decision or action.”
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