VentureBeat February 7, 2024
Today the Biden administration named Elizabeth Kelly, a top White House aide who had been a “driving force” behind the President’s AI Executive Order (EO), as the director of the new US AI Safety Institute (USAISI) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In addition, Elham Tabassi was appointed as chief technology officer.
NIST, which is part of the US Department of Commerce, released an highly-anticipated AI risk management framework in January 2023 and was given a great deal of responsibility in the White House’s AI EO to “undertake an initiative for evaluating and auditing capabilities relating to Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and to develop a variety of guidelines, including for conducting AI red-teaming tests to enable deployment...