National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence

The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) was an independent commission of the United States of America established in 2018 to make recommendations to the President and Congress to "advance the development of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and associated technologies to comprehensively address the national security and defense needs of the United States".

NSCAI

National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence
Formation	2018; 6 years ago (2018)
Purpose	Reporting relationship between AI and US national security
Headquarters	Washington, DC., United States of America
Chairman	Dr. Eric Schmidt
Website	nscai.gov

It issued its final report in March 2021, saying that the U.S. is not sufficiently prepared to defend or compete against China in the AI era.^[1][2][3]

Members

 

Dr. Eric Schmidt, chairman of the commission

Here is a list of members from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence:

• Eric Schmidt (chair), former CEO of Google
• Robert Work (Vice Chair), former Deputy Secretary of Defense
• Mignon Clyburn, former Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission
• Chris Darby, CEO of In-Q-Tel
• Jose-Marie Griffiths, President of Dakota State University
• William Hurd, former U.S. Representative from Texas
• Katharina McFarland, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition
• Jason Matheny, Director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University
• Ash Carter, former Secretary of Defense
• Gilman Louie, partner at Alsop Louie Partners
• Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle
• Steve Chien, technical fellow at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
• Adam Grant, organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
• Fei-Fei Li, professor of computer science at Stanford University
• Terah Lyons, founding executive director of the Partnership on AI
• Andrew Moore, dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
• William J. Perry, former Secretary of Defense
• Eric Rosenbach, co-director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University
• Danny Toler, former CIO of the CIA

Recommendations

The report's recommendations include:^[4]

• dramatically increasing non-defense federal spending on AI research and development, doubling every year from $2 billion in 2022, to $32 billion in 2026. That would bring it up to a level similar to spending on biomedical research
• creation of a Digital Corps to bring skilled tech workers into government
• founding of a Digital Service Academy: an accredited university providing subsidized education in exchange for a commitment to work for a time in government
• include civil rights and civil liberty reports for new AI systems or major updates to existing systems
• expanding allocations of employment-based green cards, and giving them to every AI PhD graduate from an accredited U.S. university
• reforming the acquisition management system Department of Defense to make it faster and easier to introduce new technologies.^[5]

References

1. Shead, Sam (2021-03-02). "U.S. is 'not prepared to defend or compete in the A.I. era,' says expert group chaired by Eric Schmidt". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
2. "AI commission sees 'extraordinary' support to stand up tech-focused service academy". Federal News Network. 2021-03-02. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
3. "US must face artificial intelligence competition from China, report says". South China Morning Post. 2021-03-02. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
4. "National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence issues report on how to maintain U.S. dominance". VentureBeat. 2021-03-01. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
5. Gould, Joe (2021-03-12). "Pentagon processes 'antithetical' to AI development, former Google CEO warns". C4ISRNET. Retrieved 2021-03-14.

External links

• Official website