The White House's top science advisors have globally summoned the importance of civic services when describing a new AI action plan to export “American AI.”
Michael Kratzos, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, spoke about the White House's recently announced “AI Action Plan” at an event at the Center for Strategic Research on Wednesday.
The plan directs more than 90 federal policy measures. These include the Department of Commerce recommendations to gather proposals from the industry to develop a “full stack AI export package.”
“One of the most important things we have to do is make sure the world is running on the American AI stack,” says Kratsios. “We have the best chips, the best clouds, the best models, the best applications. Everyone in the world needs to use our technology. We need the world to make it easy to use.”
Kratsios said the AI Action Plan export idea is back to his difficulties during the first Trump administration to persuade an alliance to replace telecommunications equipment created by Chinese company Huawei.
He said governments around the world are currently exploring ways to use AI to manage data and provide public services.
“Whether that's the way you pay taxes, whether it's your healthcare record, whether it's a small thing like if you want to go to a national park for a campsite, this thing is going to be part of the AI fabric,” he continued. “And if the models tweaked to generate these AI solutions aren't from the US, that's going to be a big problem.”
The Trump administration has organized an “AI stack” to facilitate exports to foreign governments, as opposed to individual works such as AI models and cloud services.
“In general, I'm interested in many countries having AI for people,” Kratzios said. “The details of what that means aren't always there. And we have to fill in the void for them. We must show them the possibilities of AI for their people, their countries, and their economy, and make it humanely possible so that they can implement it.”
Meanwhile, the new AI Action Plan includes many recommendations for US agencies that aim to “accelerate the adoption of AI in government.” The latest plans follow the Bureau of Management and Budget Directives starting in April on the Federal Use of AI and Federal AI Procurement, respectively.
AI Action Plan recommendations will formalize the Chief Council of Artificial Intelligence as a “primary venue for interagency coordination and collaboration on AI adoption,” including the creation of a federal AI Talent Exchange program and the establishment of the General Services Bureau's “AI Procurement Toolbox.”
The Action Plan also proposes that agencies require that they ensure that they “ensure access to all employees who can benefit from access to the Frontier Language Model and provide appropriate training for such tools.”
The plan also recommends that OMB organize its cohort of “high-impact service providers” to develop and increase the use of AI for public service delivery. OMB designates the agency as a shocking service provider due to the size and importance of public services.
“The use of AI tools allows the federal government to serve the public with much higher efficiency and effectiveness,” the action plan states. “Use cases include slowly and often manual acceleration of internal processes, streamlining public interactions, and more.”
AI standards, funding
Kratsios said the White House is also looking for Capitol Hill to address some issues with AI.
In June, the Ministry of Commerce reformed the AI Safety Institute as the “Center for AI Standards and Innovation.” The Biden administration initially established the AI Safety Institute. However, Kratzos and other Trump administration officials have criticized the previous administration's AI efforts for over-focusing safety and guardrails at the expense of innovation.
During today's CSIS event, Kratsios said it will help rebranded NIST centers solve key challenges in how they measure and evaluate models.
“It's all about understanding the measurement science of models,” he said. “It's looking forward to sharing what NIST is working on and how to actually measure models with the world. And when you do that, it's really valuable to the industry. If you want to deploy a model and see how the model or the standard of the model is done.
The AI Action Plan also recommends multiple jobs from the NIST AI Center. This will lead to establishing federal agencies' AI assessment guidelines and developing AI incident response standards.
Kratsios said lawmakers could consider “how to legislate the Standards Institute and give statutory coverage for some of the actions they want to make in the long term.”
Meanwhile, he also pointed to funding AI at the National Science Foundation and other institutions.
“I've always been thinking about R&D funding and how to prioritize AI-related funding at NSF and many other institutions,” says Kratsios.
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