The US Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) established an AI Security and Safety Board and named 22 members, comprising tech agency executives and different consultants within the discipline, in line with an April 26 press launch.
The members embrace OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and the heads of main tech corporations like NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
The board additionally contains Maryland Governor Wes Moore, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell and different consultants inside and with out the AI business — together with important infrastructure operators, public officers, civil rights leaders, and teachers.
Defending important infrastructure
The board’s inaugural assembly is scheduled for Might. Its major accountability shall be to advise the DHS on the secure and accountable deployment of AI whereas addressing any associated threats.
The initiative focuses on AI in relation to 16 important infrastructure sectors, together with the protection, power, agriculture, transportation, and web expertise sectors.
The hassle builds on the DHS’s 2024 Homeland Menace Evaluation, which discovered that AI may allow superior cyber assaults in opposition to US infrastructure. It additionally builds on the division’s Synthetic Intelligence Roadmap, which particulars its plans to make use of AI in homeland safety missions in a approach that protects people’ privateness, rights, and civil liberties.
The institution of the AI security board additionally follows the Biden administration’s October 2023 government order on AI security. That order directed Mayorkas to determine the board whereas additionally setting different necessities for the DHS and the broader US authorities.
US federal businesses are at present within the means of appointing chief AI officers and establishing AI governance boards.
The DHS can be within the means of recruiting AI consultants in a “hiring dash.” The initiative will velocity the deployment of AI and machine studying applied sciences throughout the DHS and assist the division tackle felony exercise and homeland safety threats.
