A panel joins'Fox News @ Night' to weigh in on a voter sentiment poll about the incoming Trump administration, Chinese President Xi Jinping's invitation to the presidential inauguration, and efforts by Trump Cabinet nominees to court senators. President-elect Donald Trump unleashed a slew of nominations on Sunday night, naming several new people to serve in his forthcoming administration. In several Truth Social posts on Sunday, Trump introduced various experts to work in the White House on issues ranging from defense to technology to budgeting. The Republican leader began by naming Stephen Alexander Vaden as his nominee for deputy secretary of the Department of Agriculture. "In my First Term, Stephen was the General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture, and a Member of the Board of the Commodity Credit Corporation, where he won two cases before the United States Supreme Court, relocated and reorganized the Agencies that comprise the Department to better serve Rural America, and engaged in substantial regulatory reform," Trump wrote in a post.

The Biden administration on Tuesday sought input from the public on how to ensure artificial intelligence develops in a way that supports "equity" and civil rights and helps "underserved communities," as part of a broader plan to promote "responsible" AI. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced it is seeking input from any interested party on how to reach these and other goals as AI systems are developed. Policymakers and AI developers are increasingly in agreement on the need for federal rules, and possibly even a new federal agency, to ensure the risks of AI are managed. To inform this work, OSTP asked a series of questions on how to protect people's rights and safety as AI systems become more widely used, as well as questions related to "advancing equity and strengthening civil rights. HERE'S HOW AI IS BEING USED TO UNLOCK SECRETS STILL HIDDEN IN THE HUMAN BRAIN President Biden on Tuesday released a new plan for government research into AI, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is asking how to make sure AI boosts'equity.' (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) "What are the opportunities for AI to enhance equity and how can these be fostered?" "For example, what are the potential benefits for AI in enabling broadened prosperity, expanding economic and educational opportunity, increasing access to services, and advancing civil rights?

ChatGPT has stoked new hopes about the potential of artificial intelligence--but also new fears. Today the White House joined the chorus of concern, announcing it will support a mass hacking exercise at the Defcon security conference this summer to probe generative AI systems from companies including Google. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy also said that $140 million will be diverted towards launching seven new National AI Research Institutes focused on developing ethical, transformative AI for the public good, bringing the total number to 25 nationwide. The announcement came hours before a meeting on the opportunities and risks presented by AI between vice president Kamala Harris and executives from Google and Microsoft as well as the startups Anthropic and OpenAI, which created ChatGPT. The White House AI intervention comes as appetite for regulating the technology is growing around the world, fueled by the hype and investment sparked by ChatGPT.

This morning, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a long-awaited "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights" ("AI Bill of Rights") that, when implemented, would apply to automated systems that have the potential to meaningfully affect the American public's rights, opportunities, or access to critical resources or services. The AI Bill of Rights is designed to provide protections to apply broadly to all automated systems that "have the potential" to significantly affect individuals or communities, from civil rights/civil liberties (including privacy), to equal opportunities for healthcare, education, and employment, as well as access to resources and services. The AI Bill of Rights contains five broad categories of practices designed to "guide the design, use, and deployment of automated systems to protect the rights of the American public in the age of artificial intelligence." Safe and Effective Systems: Individuals "should be protected from unsafe or ineffective systems." In addition, "[a]utomated systems should be developed with consultation from diverse communities, stakeholders, and domain experts to identify concerns, risks, and potential impacts of the system."

On Tuesday 4 October, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a blueprint for an AI bill of rights. The aim is "to help guide the design, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and other automated systems so that they protect the rights of the American public." The bill outlines five protections that everyone in America should have with regards to artificial intelligence. To accompany these five principles, the full blueprint document contains a technical companion which considers each principle and provides examples and concrete steps for communities, industry, governments, and others to take in order to build these protections into policy, practice, or the technological design process.

The Biden administration unveiled a set of far-reaching goals Tuesday aimed at averting harms caused by the rise of artificial intelligence systems, including guidelines for how to protect people's personal data and limit surveillance,

In the past decade, data-driven technologies have transformed the world around us. We've seen what's possible by gathering large amounts of data and training artificial intelligence to interpret it: computers that learn to translate languages, facial recognition systems that unlock our smartphones, algorithms that identify cancers in patients. Eric Lander is science adviser to the president and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Alondra Nelson is deputy director for science and society at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. But these new tools have also led to serious problems.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Thursday announced the launch of a National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force. The new task force will lay out a road map for expanding critical resources and educational tools that the Biden Administration says it hopes will spur innovation and economic prosperity across the U.S. Its launch comes amid heightened scrutiny of the U.S.'s competitive position in research and development, and follows a bill that was last week passed by the Senate to limit the technology influence of China. The new task force will act as an advisory committee and is tasked with ensuring that AI researchers and students across all scientific disciplines receive the computational resources, high quality data, educational tools and other user support. It will submit two reports to Congress that present a comprehensive AI strategy and implementation plan: an interim report in May 2022, and a final report in November 2022. Lynne Parker, who is director of the National AI Initiative Office at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, will co-chair the committee, along with Erwin Gianchandani from the National Science Foundation.

On March 16, 2020, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced the availability of an open research dataset on COVID-19, as well as stated a call to action for the nation's artificial intelligence (AI) researchers to help scientists fight the disease. Established in 1976, the OSTP provides scientific and technological advice to the President and the Executive Office, among other duties. The CORD-19 (COVID-19 Open Research Dataset) is the result of a collaboration between the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), Microsoft, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in response to a request by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Together these institutions issued a joint call to action to the world's AI researchers to create text and data mining tools to help accelerate COVID-19 research. The Allen Institute's Semantic Scholar has an adaptive feed on COVID-19 research.

Federal agencies will soon have to demonstrate that any proposed regulations for artificial intelligence technologies in the private sector abide by a new, "first-of-its-kind" series of 10 principles set forth by the Trump administration this week. In a preview call with reporters Monday and subsequent op-ed in Bloomberg Tuesday morning, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios and other senior administration officials from the White House Office of Science and Technology detailed the principles proposed to govern the future development and private sector use of AI technologies. The guidelines, published in a draft memorandum Tuesday afternoon, are "a first of their kind--from any government" insiders said, though they also emphasized that the U.S. government's own use of the budding technology is outside the purview of the document. "On its face, the guidance we describe provides agencies with a common sense, pro-innovation approach to deal with various AI regulatory issues," Kratsios said on the call. "As countries around the world grapple with similar questions around the appropriate regulation of AI, [the principles] demonstrate America is leading the way to shape the evolution of AI in a way that reflects our values of freedom, human rights and civil liberties."