Generative AI technology is powering new opportunities for Federal agencies, but Department of Defense (DoD) officials on Tuesday also warned of the risks of generative AI – such as the benefits it offers to adversaries and the technology’s expensive operating costs. […]
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Senior technology officials at Red Hat said today that Federal government organizations face highly consequential decisions over the next year on how they choose to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and emphasized that much of the AI innovation is taking place via open source software in which the company specializes. […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) component is looking to generative artificial intelligence (AI) tech to not only provide better customer service but also help its field agents operate more efficiently, according to CBP’s Deputy Chief Data Officer (CDO) Trang Tran. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is warning of the “peril” of generative AI as malicious use of the emerging technology works to increase the cyber threat to U.S. networks in 2025 and beyond. […]
By Darren Guccione, CEO and Co-Founder of Keeper Security Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) offers innovative applications that could help the federal government adapt to changing times. Some use cases are experimental, exploring new ideas, while others are already delivering positive results by enhancing human effort for difficult projects. GenAI also has the potential to streamline tedious, […]
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is seeking generative artificial intelligence technologies to help the military with planning processes, according to an Aug. 23 solicitation to industry. […]
U.S. Army Chief Information Officer (CIO) Leo Garciga said today that his team is working on a “wide swath of things” in the generative AI space and detailed the service branch’s exploration of large language models as a service (LLMaaS). […]
After months of prodding, 19 big tech companies have shared their efforts to crack down on malicious uses of AI this election cycle with Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va. […]
A top official with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Thursday that generative AI (GenAI) tools used within the Federal government should be risk-evaluated, but that there would be limitations to a program similar to the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) for GenAI. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) published its final Emerging Technology Prioritization Framework on Thursday, detailing which generative AI capabilities will be the first to be prioritized. […]
As government officials strive for the responsible use of generative AI technologies, public sector leaders on Wednesday said they are focused on testing and evaluating AI models to help strike a balance between regulatory frameworks and innovation. […]
The Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched a new pilot program Tuesday that aims to assess the societal risks and impacts of AI systems. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) released its Generative AI and Specialized Computing Infrastructure Acquisition Resource Guide on Monday to support the Federal acquisition community when purchasing generative AI solutions and related computing infrastructure. […]
The technical lead for the Pentagon’s new Task Force Lima said this week that his team is currently working across the Defense Department (DoD) on generative AI tech to help the services “unlock access” to troves of knowledge. […]
Two top officials from the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) offered updates today to three of CDAO’s key programs that aim to scale AI across the Defense Department (DoD), including AI scaffolding initiatives through Alpha 1, the Global Information Dominance Experiment (GIDE) series, and how Task Force Lima is helping DoD adopt generative AI. […]
The age of generative AI is here, and top officials from across the Federal government said this week that agencies must begin the work to demystify and embrace the tool among their workforce to transform how business is done. […]
As polls across the United States begin to open for the 2024 election cycle, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning election officials of the role generative AI could play in threatening election infrastructure. […]
Federal agencies will increasingly use emerging technologies like generative artificial intelligence (AI) to augment their work in 2024 and beyond, according to a new Deloitte report on government technology trends. […]
In order to “maintain the integrity of its merit review process,” the National Science Foundation (NSF) has released new guidelines on the use of generative AI for both proposers and reviewers. […]
While generative AI is rapidly evolving as a useful analytic tool, the emerging technology will not be replacing intelligence analysts anytime soon, according to a former CIA official. […]
After the launch of its new generative AI task force – dubbed Task Force Lima – earlier this year, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is continuing to make progress on the adoption of generative AI technologies across the DoD. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) is preparing an updated version of its Generative Artificial Intelligence Reference Guide to better reflect guidance from the White House’s recent AI executive order (EO), with an emphasis on responsible AI. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief Information Officer (CIO) and first-ever Chief AI Officer (CAIO) Eric Hysen is encouraging “DHS personnel to responsibly use commercial products to harness the benefits of Gen AI and ensure we continuously adapt to the future of work,” according to a memo dated Oct. 24. […]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said this week that its three commissioners unanimously approved a resolution that will give agency staff sharper tools for digging into non-public investigations of products and services that “use or claim to be produced using artificial intelligence (AI) or claim to detect its use.” […]
The Director of Artificial Intelligence at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said on Nov. 9 that OMB’s draft AI guidance to Federal agencies – released early this month – takes a broad approach that encompasses both traditional and generative AI. […]
The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Innovation Lab is building its own generative AI models to help solve some of the problems GAO’s mission teams face, according to the agency’s first chief data scientist and director of the Innovation Lab. […]
Technology and innovation expert Mitch Joel said at today’s Dell Technologies Forum event that the biggest challenge for organizations that have begun leveraging artificial intelligence involves evaluating the differences between traditional AI technologies and newer generative AI tools, and then considering the best uses for both. […]
Government agencies have great interest in using ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies but are proceeding cautiously amid security and other obstacles, Federal officials said at an AI forum on Aug. 2. […]
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have taken the news cycle by a storm over the last several months, and it’s time for lawmakers to begin considering Federal privacy laws to protect sensitive information collected by generative AI systems. […]
A group of big-tech industry leaders warned today that artificial intelligence (AI) may one day pose an existential threat to humanity and should be considered a societal risk on par with pandemics and nuclear wars. […]