White House Blueprint is the Starting Point for Building Responsible AI - Nextgov

Late last year, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, instantly elevating the topic of responsible AI to the top of leadership agendas across executive branch agencies. While the themes of the blueprint are not entirely new--building on prior work including the AI in Government Act of 2020, a December 2020 executive order on trustworthy AI, and the Federal Privacy Council's Fair Information Practice Principles--the report brings new urgency to ongoing agency efforts to leverage data in ways consistent with our democratic ideals. With a stated goal of supporting "the development of policies and practices that protect civil rights and promote democratic values in the building, deployment and governance of automated systems," the blueprint is rooted in five principles: safe and effective systems; algorithmic discrimination protections; data privacy; notice and explanation; and human alternatives, consideration and fallback. The Blueprint also includes notes on applying the principles and a technical companion to support operationalization. Some agencies that are less mature in their data capabilities might consider the blueprint to be of limited relevance.