U.S. Department of Commerce to Create Public AI Task Force to Address Potential Risks of Generative AI

According to IT House, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo (Gina Raimondo) recently announced that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will establish a new public working group on artificial intelligence (AI). It will build on the success of the NIST Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (RMF) to further address issues brought about by the rapid development of AI technology.

The Commerce Department said the task force will recruit volunteers and technical experts from the private and public sectors, and will focus on the risks associated with generative AI, which is driving rapid technological and market change.

NIST has short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals for the working group. In the short term, the working group will provide guidance on how to use NISF's AI risk management framework to support generative AI research and development. In the medium term, the working group will support NIST's work on generative AI-related testing, evaluation, and more. In the long term, the working group will explore the possibility of effectively using generative AI to solve social problems, such as issues such as health, environment and climate change.