NIST Pushes Ahead on Implementation of the AI EO
Summary
On December 21, 2023, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) published a request for information (RFI) to assist it in developing standards and best practices required under the Biden administration’s October Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI EO). Under the AI EO, NIST is required to, among other things, develop guidelines for evaluation and red-teaming of AI models, facilitate development of consensus-based standards and provide testing environments for the evaluation of AI systems. The RFI requests input on (1) AI safety and security, including generative AI risk management, AI evaluation and red-teaming; (2) synthetic content risks, including creation, detection, labeling and auditing; and (3) global technical standards, including AI-related consensus standards, cooperation, coordination and information sharing. Comments must be received by February 2, 2024. NIST also issued guidance for employing differential privacy as a privacy-enhancing measure, pursuant to the AI EO, which called for an evaluation of “the efficacy of differentialprivacy-guarantee protections, including for AI.” The agency will accept public comments through 11:59 p.m. ET on January 25, 2024 to privacyeng@nist.gov using this comment template.
