White House technology policy chief says AI bill of rights needs 'teeth' - FedScoop

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's bill of rights for an artificial intelligence-powered world needs "teeth," in the form of procurement enforcement, said Director Eric Lander on Tuesday. Many AI ethics proposals are little more than a set of basic expectations around governance, privacy, fairness, transparency and explainability, when laws and litigation are needed to back them up, Lander said, during Stanford University's Human-Centered AI Fall Conference. Lander's comments come after the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a request for information last month on biometrics use cases -- given the technologies' wide adoption for identification, surveillance and behavioral analysis -- to inform development of the AI bill of rights. "We see this as a way not to limit innovation," Lander said. "We see this [as a way] to improve the quality of products by not rewarding people who cut corners and instead setting ground rules to reward people who produce safe, effective, fair, equitable products."