Advancing Responsible AI Innovation

Rapidly evolving AI technologies offer tremendous opportunities to help federal agencies address today’s most pressing challenges, from the effects of climate change and responding to natural disasters, to improving public health services, to strengthening public safety and national security.

The Office of Management and Budget recently released policy guidance to remove unnecessary barriers that hinder agencies’ responsible implementation of AI-centric solutions. The guidance is to minimize any risks resulting from relying on AI to make agency decisions or take actions that could undermine the “efficacy, safety, equitableness, fairness, transparency, accountability, appropriateness, or lawfulness of such decisions or actions.” When OMB refers to removing barriers to AI adoption, it means streamlining AI-enabling enterprise infrastructure, data access and governance, workforce development measures, policy, and other resources for AI innovation.

Learning Objectives:

• Review the broad elements of OMB’s guidance, including governance requirements, agencies’ responsibility to produce AI strategies over the next year, and actions to manage risk
• Outline ways that innovative AI can be used to advance possible new solutions to issues of national concern, such as climate crises around the country
• Delineate best practices for integrating AI solutions into existing infrastructure