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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established an AI Safety and Security Board and named 22 members, comprising tech steadfast executives and different experts successful the field, according to an April 26 property release.
The members see OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and the heads of large tech companies similar NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
The committee besides comprises Maryland Governor Wes Moore, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell and different experts wrong and without the AI manufacture — including captious infrastructure operators, nationalist officials, civilian rights leaders, and academics.
Protecting captious infrastructure
The board’s inaugural gathering is scheduled for May. Its superior work volition beryllium to counsel the DHS connected the harmless and liable deployment of AI portion addressing immoderate related threats.
The inaugural focuses connected AI successful narration to 16 captious infrastructure sectors, including the defense, energy, agriculture, transportation, and net exertion sectors.
The effort builds connected the DHS’s 2024 Homeland Threat Assessment, which recovered that AI could alteration precocious cyber attacks against US infrastructure. It besides builds connected the department’s Artificial Intelligence Roadmap, which details its plans to usage AI successful homeland information missions successful a mode that protects individuals’ privacy, rights, and civilian liberties.
The constitution of the AI information committee besides follows the Biden administration’s October 2023 enforcement bid connected AI safety. That bid directed Mayorkas to found the committee portion besides mounting different requirements for the DHS and the broader US government.
US national agencies are presently successful the process of appointing main AI officers and establishing AI governance boards.
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