According to a recent press release, “The White House announced the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium to provide COVID-19 researchers worldwide with access to the world’s most powerful high performance computing resources that can significantly advance the pace of scientific discovery in the fight to stop the virus. ‘America is coming together […]
Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Needs More Data
by Angela Guess Mike Orcutt recently wrote in the MIT Technology Review, “If Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot is really going to double the pace of progress in preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer, it’s going need a lot more data. That means it’s probably going to need more data-sharing arrangements like one announced at […]
White House Calls on AI Experts to Help Reform Criminal Justice
by Angela Guess Jason Shueh reports in Government Technology, “The U.S. spends $270 billion on incarceration each year, has a prison population of about 2.2 million and an incarceration rate that’s spiked 220 percent since the 1980s. But with the advent of data science, White House officials are asking experts for help. On Tuesday, June […]
The White House, Artificial Intelligence, and Policymaking
by Angela Guess April Glaser recently wrote in Wired, “Researchers disagree on when artificial intelligence that displays something like human understanding might arrive. But the Obama administration isn’t waiting to find out. The White House says the government needs to start thinking about how to regulate and use the powerful technology while it is still […]
White House Announces New Subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence
by Angela Guess Greg Watry reports in R&D Magazine, “Get ready because artificial intelligence is on the White House’s radar, and it’s taking the field seriously. The White House this week announced the new National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Subcommittee on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence will meet for the first time next week, […]