The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is set to publish a new report this month looking at how well Federal agencies have done with artificial intelligence use case inventories, according to an agency official.
Stephen Sanford, managing director for strategic planning and external liaison at GAO, discussed the forthcoming report during a panel discussion at the Data in Action Summit hosted by Informatica on Dec. 6.
“We are actually working right now on a report that should come out this month, looking at the 23 CFO Act civilian agencies, and how well they’re doing with the inventory process of use cases and also where they are with meeting the requirements” of AI-related executive orders from the White House, Sanford said.
Sanford said the soon-to-be-released report also will look at how agencies are meeting requirements of “legislation like the AI in Government Act 2020 In terms of that implementation.”
The report is slated only to include information for civilian Federal agencies and will not include the Department of Defense (DoD) and its inventory of AI use cases.
Sanford added that GAO is currently looking at how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been implementing the AI Accountability Framework into its AI use cases. “We’re also looking at how DHS … [is] doing with all four aspects, all four pillars of our framework. So that work will be coming out early next year,” said Sanford.
“We have a lot in the pipeline,” Sanford said. “The goal here is, I think, as a Federal community, to try to learn from all this work. And these are, I think, some of the first wide-scoped evaluative jobs that we’re … doing that are going to be coming out.”
