AI use cases Archives

White House releases final guidance for 2024 AI use case inventories

Finalized document sets a deadline of Dec. 16, 2024 for agencies to submit their updated inventories of artificial intelligence use cases.

Aug 23, 2024 By Madison Alder

CISA names Lisa Einstein as its first chief AI officer

The cyber agency’s senior adviser for AI played “a central role” in efforts including CISA’s AI roadmap and a pilot for AI-enabled vulnerability detection.

Aug 1, 2024 By Matt Bracken

ACLU seeks AI records from NSA, Defense Department in new lawsuit

The complaint, filed under the Freedom of Information Act, aims to compel the release of documents related to NSA’s use of artificial intelligence.

Apr 26, 2024 By Madison Alder

Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, on Capitol Hill. (Library of Congress / Flickr)

Congressional Research Service looking at AI for bill summaries

The research entity, which operates under the Library of Congress, hopes to implement AI for legislative summaries “soon,” its interim director told a House panel.

Mar 21, 2024 By Madison Alder

Clare Martorana delivers remarks at the 2023 FedScoop 50 awards reception. (FedScoop)

Government continues to boost AI with new TMF program

The Technology Modernization Fund is looking to accelerate AI goals outlined in President Joe Biden’s executive order on the technology.

Feb 8, 2024 By Rebecca Heilweil

The seal of the Department of Homeland Security is seen on a podium on Feb. 23, 2015, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

DHS’s initial AI inventory included a cybersecurity use case that wasn’t AI, GAO says

A new watchdog report finds that the Department of Homeland Security wasn’t verifying whether use case submissions were actual examples of AI, raising “questions about the overall…

Feb 7, 2024 By Matt Bracken

National Science Foundation is looking to approve more uses of generative AI

The agency reveals new guidelines for generative AI in its merit review process, while also noting that it is exploring how the technology “might be responsibly applied…

Dec 15, 2023 By Caroline Nihill Rebecca Heilweil

A new American citizen holds an envelope with her U.S. citizenship certificate following a naturalization ceremony on Aug. 10, 2023, in Utqiagvik, Alaska. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Homeland Security updates AI inventory with multiple immigration-related use cases

New disclosures from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services represent at least the third time that DHS has updated its AI inventory in recent months.

Nov 16, 2023 By Rebecca Heilweil

Privacy group pushes Biden administration on AI resources for agencies ahead of executive order

In a new letter, Electronic Privacy Information Center tech experts made several suggestions to the Biden administration regarding its forthcoming executive order on artificial intelligence.

Oct 24, 2023 By Rebecca Heilweil Madison Alder

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., hosts a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 13, 2023. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)

Policy experts see missing pieces in agencies’ AI use case disclosures

The Biden administration’s release of AI use case inventories is “a step” in the right direction, but tech policy experts have suggestions for ways to improve the…

Oct 20, 2023 By Rebecca Heilweil Madison Alder