White House Announces Select Committee of Federal AI Experts

Artificial intelligence is perhaps the biggest buzzword in federal technology today. For the government--and society at large--to truly benefit from AI's potential, government, industry and academia will have to come together to foster this nascent technology, according to the president's top tech adviser. The White House convened a summit Thursday of top thinkers in the field of AI, during which Michael Kratsios, deputy assistant to the president for technology policy and current head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, announced a new Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence made of up the leading AI researchers in government. "In the summer of 1956, a dozen American scientists gathered on Dartmouth's campus with the goal to, 'find how to make machines solve the kinds of problems now reserved for humans,'" Kratsios said, according to prepared remarks provided to Nextgov by OSTP. "Now, nearly 62 years later, the age of artificial intelligence is here, and with it the hope of better lives for the American people."