The announcement highlighted steps including setting disclosure requirements for developers and assessing AI’s risks for critical infrastructure. Image: VideoFlow/Shutterstock.com
The Biden administration has highlighted a “talent surge” for hiring persons with artificial intelligence into federal agencies as among the early responses to its executive order on AI.
“The AI and Tech Talent Task Force created by President Biden’s E.O. has spearheaded this hiring action and is coordinating other key initiatives to facilitate hiring AI talent. The Office of Personnel Management has granted flexible hiring authorities for federal agencies to hire AI talent, including direct hire authorities and excepted service authorities,” it says. “Government-wide tech talent programs, including the Presidential Innovation Fellows, U.S. Digital Corps, and U.S. Digital Service, have scaled up hiring for AI talent in 2024 across high-priority AI projects.”
It said agencies have completed the 90-day tasks required by the order issued last October setting a series of requirements for federal agencies on disclosure of safety test results on systems that could affect national security; standards for ensuring that systems are safe, secure and trustworthy; protections against fraud and deceptive content; use of AI to find and fix vulnerabilities in software; and more.
In addition to the hiring surge, the announcement highlighted steps including setting disclosure requirements for developers and assessing AI’s risks for critical infrastructure; launching the pilot National AI Research Resource at the National Science Foundation; starting the EducateAI initiative to help fund educators creating AI educational opportunities; and establishing a task force at HHS to “provide regulatory clarity and catalyze AI innovation in health care.”
The announcement came on the launch of the interagency White House AI Council, which the order required establishing.
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