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OMB seeks input on privacy impact assessments for AI use

FedScoop

JANUARY 26, 2024

The White House Office of Management and Budget is looking for input on how federal agency privacy impact assessments could more effectively mitigate risks as technologies, such as artificial intelligence, become more advanced. The post OMB seeks input on privacy impact assessments for AI use appeared first on FedScoop.

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Generative AI could raise questions for federal records laws

FedScoop

APRIL 22, 2024

But the agency’s provisional approval of a few generative AI products — which include ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Claude 2, DALL-E2, and Grammarly, per a privacy impact assessment — call for closer examination in regard to federal transparency. DHS tracks its FOIAs in a public log.

Electronics

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Labor Department’s AI roadmap geared toward ‘worker empowerment’

FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2024

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, meanwhile, said that DOL’s “new AI best practices are an important new tool to help employers understand the value of engaging their workers to ensure that these technologies actually improve productivity, work and workers’ lives.”

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Law enforcement agencies need standardized AI field testing, presidential advisers say

FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A potential checklist compiled by the subcommittee includes callouts to describe the AI tool and its intended use, document use limitation plans, conduct an AI impact assessment, identify the testing method and complete a questionnaire designed to “brainstorm and identify metrics” associated with the system.

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National framework for AI assurance in Australian government: Guidance when building with AWS AI/ML solutions

AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 6, 2024

This targeted approach offers clearer accountability, enhanced transparency, simplified risk assessment, and focused testing procedures. To assess if an AI system operates as intended, it is important to use accurate and representative training data.

Government

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Erika Kurockina, the Deputy Minister of the Economy says: “Public procurement is certainly an effective tool to achieve strategic objectives, including SME engagement, inclusion, environment, and it is important to achieve a good balance between these goals.

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Two roles of procurement in public sector digitalisation: gatekeeping and experimentation

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 10, 2023

Procurement is thus seen as a mechanism of ‘regulation by contract’ whereby the public buyer can impose requirements seeking to achieve broad goals of digital regulation, such as transparency, trustworthiness, or explainability, or to operationalise more general ‘AI ethics’ frameworks.

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Procuring AI without understanding it. Way to go?

How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

The UK’s Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) has published a report on Transparency in the procurement of algorithmic systems (for short, the ‘AI procurement report’). Some of DRCF’s findings in the AI procurement report are astonishing, and should attract significant attention.

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What are the main governance opportunities and challenges for procurement digitalisation?

University of Bristol

DECEMBER 5, 2022

New and heightened governance challenges From a governance perspective, ensuring adequate decision-making in procurement digitalisation requires that the potential benefits from the adoption of digital technologies within this feasibility boundary is assessed against new governance risks and requirements for their mitigation.

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Friday Flash 10/20/23

The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Second, the realignment provides an opportunity to increase transparency for customer agencies and industry partners seeking to do business with FAS. The new structure also can enhance transparency with regard to guidance impacting the MAS program. Third, the alignment provides an opportunity to improve data management.

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

How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The use of AI by the US Federal Government is an important focus of the AI Executive Order. Scope The Draft AI in Government Policy relies on a tiered approach to AI risk by imposing specific obligations in relation to safety-impacting and rights-impacting AI only.

Risk Management

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

Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 11, 2024

The Memo notes the importance of AI sharing and collaboration in order to advance innovation. Required Practices for all Safety- and Rights-Impacting AI Under the risk management requirements of the Memo, before any federal agency can use a safety- or rights-impacting AI, it is required to complete an AI impact assessment.

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Anthropic eyes FedRAMP accreditation in quest to sell more AI to government

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

MS: The things that could help make government easier for new entrants are probably streamlining contracting and making that process more transparent and obvious. We’re engaging with the government because we think it’s important and it’s part of our values. MS: One of the important pieces for the U.S.

Government

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OMB seeks input on privacy impact assessments for AI use

Generative AI could raise questions for federal records laws

Labor Department’s AI roadmap geared toward ‘worker empowerment’

Law enforcement agencies need standardized AI field testing, presidential advisers say

National framework for AI assurance in Australian government: Guidance when building with AWS AI/ML solutions

How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Two roles of procurement in public sector digitalisation: gatekeeping and experimentation

Procuring AI without understanding it. Way to go?

What are the main governance opportunities and challenges for procurement digitalisation?

Friday Flash 10/20/23

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

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

Anthropic eyes FedRAMP accreditation in quest to sell more AI to government

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