In brief The US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (“AISI”), housed within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”), announced on 20 November 2024 the release of its first synthetic content guidance report, NIST AI 100-4 Reducing Risks Posed by Synthetic Content: An Overview of Technical Approaches to Digital Content Transparency (“NIST AI 100-4”). “Synthetic content” is defined in President Biden’s Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI (“EO 14110”) as “information, such as…
In brief On Thursday, November 14, 2024, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) announced its groundbreaking “Roles and Responsibilities Framework for Artificial Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure” (“Framework”). The Framework is a guide for deploying AI safely and securely in all sixteen sectors of U.S. critical infrastructure, including communications, critical manufacturing, energy, financial services, healthcare, and information technology. It emphasizes the importance of risk-based mitigations to reduce potential harms to critical infrastructure and highlights the…