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OMB draft AI guidance defines role of top agency AI official, adds to inventories

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The memo strongly emphasizes AI innovation, instructing agencies to build IT infrastructure to support AI, collect data to train AI and evaluate potential applications of generative AI. Notably, challenges with AI inventories were the subject of a major Stanford report published in 2022.

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OMB Releases Final Guidance Memo on the Government’s Use of AI

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Agencies must also submit a compliance plan and AI use case inventory. They will also be required to release all data used to develop and test their AI products. Advancing Responsible AI Innovation The Memo encourages responsible advancement of AI innovation within federal agencies. race, age, sex, etc.);

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Some thoughts on the US' Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of AI

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There is a commonality of risks (eg discrimination, data governance risks) that would be better managed if there was a joined up approach. general minimum practices Both in relation to safety- and rights-impact AI uses, the Draft AI in Government Policy would require agencies to engage in risk management both before and while using AI.

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CBP leaning into biometrics on controversial app, raising concerns from immigrant rights advocates

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The expansion of biometrics — and in particular, personal data about peoples’ faces — comes amid ongoing issues with the app’s technical capabilities. Notably, the current status of the liveness detection feature appears to be inaccurately described in DHS’s AI inventory, which the agency has updated several times within the past year.

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Amid scrutiny into the US Secret Service, a look at how the agency uses technology

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In the past, the agency purchased licenses from the data mining services company Creative Radicals for social media threat monitoring. The Secret Service has also disclosed a social media screening contract through a privacy impact assessment. Many of the companies mentioned did not respond to requests for comment.

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Eyebrow-raising AI amendment passes Senate Commerce committee 

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While roll call votes on Cruz’s proposals to repeal the AI executive order in its entirety and prevent environmental impact assessments on AI systems failed at the markup Wednesday, another amendment that would dull the teeth of federal government actions to prevent bias and discrimination in AI systems advanced in a substitute via voice vote.