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• Artificial Intelligence R&D Interagency Working Group

  The AI IWG coordinates Federal R&D in AI; it also supports and coordinates activities tasked by the NSTC Select Committee on AI and Subcommittee on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

  

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) R&D
Interagency Working Group

Overview

The AI IWG coordinates Federal R&D in AI; it also supports and coordinates activities tasked by the NSTC Select Committee on AI and Subcommittee on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. This vital work promotes U.S. leadership and global competitiveness in AI R&D. The National AI Research and Development Strategic Plan: 2019 Update outlines the Federal strategic priorities for AI research.

Strategic Priorities

• Coordinate long-term Federal investments in AI R&D, such as algorithms to enable robust and reliable perception, general AI systems that exhibit the flexibility and versatility of human intelligence, and combinatorial optimization to obtain prodigious performance.
• Promote safe and effective methods for human–AI collaboration to achieve optimal efficiency and performance by developing advanced AI techniques for human augmentation and improved visualization and AI-human interfaces.
• Develop methods for designing AI systems that align with ethical, legal, and societal goals, and behave according to formal and informal human norms.
• Improve the safety and security of AI systems so that they operate in a controlled, well-defined, and well-understood manner.
• Develop shared public datasets and environments for AI training and testing to increase the benefits and trustworthiness of AI.
• Improve measurement and evaluation of AI technologies through benchmarks and standards to address safety, reliability, accuracy, usability, interoperability, robustness, and security.
• Grow the Nation's AI R&D workforce to ensure the United States leads the automation of the future.
• Expand public-private partnerships to strengthen the R&D ecosystem.

Charter

• CHARTER of the Interagency Working Groups of the Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Committee on Science and Technology Enterprise, National Science and Technology Council. National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Committee on Science and Technology Enterprise (CSTE), Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), with participants in each IWG designated by the NSTC departments and agencies represented on the Subcommittee. October 2018.

Co-Chairs

Jeff Alstott, Ph.D. Program Manager Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Henry Kautz, Ph.D. Division Director, CISE/IIS National Science Foundation

Publications

• U.S. Leadership in AI: A Plan for Federal Engagement in Developing Technical Standards and Related Tools, National Institute of Standards and Technology, August 2019.
• The National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan: 2019 Update, Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, National Science & Technology Council, June 2019.
• Baker, Nathan, Alexander, Frank, Bremer, Timo, Hagberg, Aric, Kevrekidis, Yannis, Najm, Habib, Parashar, Manish, Patra, Abani, Sethian, James, Wild, Stefan, & Willcox, Karen. Workshop Report on Basic Research Needs for Scientific Machine Learning: Core Technologies for Artificial Intelligence. United States. doi:10.2172/1478744
• Fact Sheet: 2018 DoD Artificial Intelligence Strategy: Harnessing AI to Advance Our Security and Prosperity, U.S. Department of Defense, February 12, 2019.
• Summary of the 2018 Department Of Defense Artificial Intelligence Strategy: Harnessing AI to Advance Our Security and Prosperity, U.S. Department of Defense, February 12, 2019.
• Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, Donald J. Trump, The White House, February 11, 2019.
• Accelerating America's Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, The White House, Office of Science and Technology Policy, February 11, 2019.
• Update from the National Science and Technology Council Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, The White House, Office of Science and Technology Policy, November 30, 2018.
• Summary of the 2018 White House Summit on Artificial Intelligence for American Industry, The White House, Office of Science and Technology Policy, May 10, 2018.
• The National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan, National Science and Technology Council, Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Subcommittee, October 2016.

Agency Resources/References

• Artificial Intelligence for the American People, The White House
• AI Next Campaign, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
• AI at Energy.gov, Department of Energy
• Artificial Intelligence, Department of Homeland Security
• Artificial Intelligence: Using Standards to Mitigate Risks, Department of Homeland Security
• Artificial Intelligence Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Using Artificial Intelligence to Address Criminal Justice Needs, National Institute of Justice
• Artificial Intelligence, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Artificial Intelligence Research at NSF, National Science Foundation

Events/Select Press Highlights

• Artificial Intelligence & Wireless Spectrum: Opportunities and Challenges, WSRD IWG Workshop, Griffiss Institute, Rome, NY (August 28-29, 2019).
• Federal Register Notice 84 FR 44889, "Request for Comments on Patenting Artificial Intelligence Inventions", United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce, August 27, 2019.
• USPTO announces Federal Register Notice on artificial intelligence patent issues, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce, August 26, 2019.
• Plan Outlines Priorities for Federal Agency Engagement in AI Standards Development, National Institute of Standards and Technology (August 12, 2019).
• Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Workshop, College Park, MD (June 4-6, 2019).
• Federal Register Notice: 82 FR 48655, "Request for Information on Update to the 2016 National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan", Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, National Science and Technology Council, Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO), National Science Foundation, September 26, 2018.
• White House Hosts Summit on Artificial Intelligence for American Industry, May 10, 2018.

Presentations

• Presentation Library - https://www.nitrd.gov/presentations/ (This resource is a collection of presentations, reports, and webinars given by a broad range of presenters from academia, government, and private sectors at various NITRD Interagency Working Group meetings, workshops, and public events.)
• AI-Cybersecurity Workshop Briefing to the NITRD and MLAI Subcommittees, Patrick McDaniel, July 2019.
• Better Together: Deep Learning & Software Engineering (video), (pdf), Denys Poshyvanyk, March 7, 2019.
• AI Industry Perspective on Quantifying Fairness (video), Rumman Chowdhury, Michael Garris, September 21, 2018.
• Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the Agency Interface (video), (pdf), Gil Alterovitz, Justin Koufopoulos, August 20, 2018.

Federal Register Documents

• Federal Register Documents - https://www.nitrd.gov/apps/federal-register-documents/ (This resource is a collection of the Federal Register documents (Notices, Request for Comments, and Request for Information) issued by or on-behalf of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program.)

AI RFI Responses, October 26, 2018

• Update to the 2016 National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan RFI Responses

The NITRD NCO, on behalf of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (AI), published a Request for Information (RFI) on September 26, 2018, to obtain public input for the Update to the 2016 National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan. The RFI comment period ended on October 26, 2018, with inputs received from industry, academia, and private sector.

The RFI public responses received and posted. Please note that these responses do not represent the views and/or opinions of the U.S. Government, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (AI), NSTC Subcommittee on Machine Learning and AI, NSTC Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), NITRD National Coordination Office, and/or any other Federal agencies and/or government entities.