Artificial intelligence adoption across the federal government has been iterative and cautious — for good reason. Concerns about the responsible and ethical use of AI have slowed the technology’s deployment, but new milestones are laying the groundwork for 2024 to be a year of accelerated AI adoption.
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AI Executive Order Sets Groundwork for Adoption
In October 2023, President Biden issued an executive order that set new safety standards for safely and effectively adopting AI technologies.
“The executive order aspires to set up guardrails for agencies to understand how to implement generative AI while mitigating associated risks,” commented GovCon Expert Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of information solutions at Deltek and a 2024 Wash100 Award winner.
“We also have to make sure privacy controls are in place so that AI technology is not compromising personal or citizen data,” he told Executive Mosaic.
Project Maven to Begin Contracting
The Pentagon’s flagship AI effort Project Maven may potentially begin contracting in 2024, according to 2024 Wash100 Award winner Rachael Martin, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Maven office director.
“We’ve hit our milestones and you’ll start seeing as we look to the next few months a lot more activity from the Maven office in terms of contracting,” Martin said in November.
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DOD Launches AI Bias Bounty
The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office launched a crowdsourcing effort to identify bias in AI large language models.
CDAO’s AI Bias Bounty, which aims to find unknown risks in open-source chatbots, is being carried out in partnership with ConductorAI, Bugcrowd and BiasBounty.AI.