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• Artificial Intelligence R&D Interagency Working Group

  "Artificial intelligence holds tremendous potential as a tool to empower the American worker, drive growth in American industry, and improve the lives of the American people. Our free market approach to scientific discovery harnesses the combined strengths of government, industry, and academia, and uniquely positions us to leverage this technology for the betterment of our great nation." - Michael Kratsios, Deputy Assistant to the President for Technology Policy

  

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) R&D
Interagency Working Group

Overview

Artificial intelligence (AI) has tremendous potential to benefit the American people. On June 27, 2018, OSTP and the newly formed Select Committee on AI approved the formation of a new NITRD AI R&D IWG.

"Artificial intelligence holds tremendous potential as a tool to empower the American worker, drive growth in American industry, and improve the lives of the American people. Our free market approach to scientific discovery harnesses the combined strengths of government, industry, and academia, and uniquely positions us to leverage this technology for the betterment of our great nation." - Michael Kratsios, Deputy Assistant to the President for Technology Policy

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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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

• Plan Outlines Priorities for Federal Agency Engagement in AI Standards Development, National Institute of Standards and Technology (August 12, 2019).
• Artificial Intelligence & Wireless Spectrum: Opportunities and Challenges, WSRD IWG Workshop, Griffiss Institute, Rome, NY (August 28-29, 2019).
• Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Workshop, College Park, MD (June 4-6, 2019).
• White House Hosts Summit on Artificial Intelligence for American Industry, May 10, 2018.

Presentations

• 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.

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.