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 area, in accordance with an April 26 press launch.
The members embody OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and the heads of main tech firms like NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
The board additionally includes Maryland Governor Wes Moore, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell and different consultants inside and with out the AI trade — together with vital infrastructure operators, public officers, civil rights leaders, and lecturers.
Defending vital infrastructure
The board’s inaugural assembly is scheduled for Could. Its major accountability will probably be to advise the DHS on the protected and accountable deployment of AI whereas addressing any associated threats.
The initiative focuses on AI in relation to 16 vital infrastructure sectors, together with the protection, power, agriculture, transportation, and web know-how sectors.
The hassle builds on the DHS’s 2024 Homeland Menace Evaluation, which discovered that AI might 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 method that protects people’ privateness, rights, and civil liberties.
The institution of the AI security board additionally follows the Biden administration’s October 2023 govt 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 companies are presently within the strategy of appointing chief AI officers and establishing AI governance boards.
The DHS can be within the strategy of recruiting AI consultants in a “hiring dash.” The initiative will pace the deployment of AI and machine studying applied sciences inside the DHS and assist the division tackle prison exercise and homeland safety threats.
