White House A.I. director says U.S. should model Europe’s approach to regulation
Since August 2018, Lynne Parker has worked in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, helping steer the executive branch’s approach to research, innovation, policy, and investment in artificial intelligence. …
As the final speaker at the Fortune Brainstorm A.I. conference in Boston this week, Parker discussed this relatively new position and shared the initiative’s three main goals. “The first one is all about research. The innovations that we’re being able to take advantage of today, many of them are due to decades of investments by the federal government and research, so there’s a recognition that the advances for the next decade need to have that research underpinning as well,” she said. “A second goal is in making sure that the U.S. leads the world in the development and use of trustworthy A.I. in both the public and private sectors. That means the federal government itself, and its use of trustworthy A.I., as well as the private sector. Obviously, there are many things that need to happen for that to take place. And then the third [goal] is to make sure that we’re educating people to have the skills and the talents and the opportunities to learn about the A.I.-enabled jobs of both today and the future.” …
International cooperation is also a big issue for Parker’s initiative, as she discussed when asked to compare the U.S.’s approach to A.I. versus China’s. …
Finally, she touched on what’s been a running theme at Fortune’s Brainstorm A.I. conference—the need to make sure artificial intelligence is equitable and ethical. Right now, she said, both the private and public sectors are still figuring out the “appropriate” ways to determine what’s responsible when it comes to transparency and explainability. …
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