Artificial Intelligence

USPTO debuts 2025 AI strategy

The agency aims to introduce automation to support patent and trademark application processing.

HHS AI plan looks to the private sector for collaboration

Public engagement and collaborative partnerships with the private sector “throughout the innovation pipeline” can help ensure that AI tools are being equitably used and deployed, HHS said in its AI strategic plan.

AI tools can help reduce climate risks, State strategy says

The release of the National Adaptation and Resilience Planning Strategy comes as a series of wildfires continue to burn across the Los Angeles area.

VA accounts for majority of all agencies’ safety- and rights-impacting AI

Of the 1,757 total AI use cases reported by federal agencies last year, 227 of them were listed as safety- or rights-impacting. VA accounted for 145 of those identified use cases.

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AI startup Anthropic to build out public sector team

Thiyagu Ramasamy, formerly of Amazon Web Services, will lead the effort.

DHS launches new AI playbook for public sector

The new guidance is intended for other government organizations to use and draws on lessons learned from three internal pilot programs.

HHS’ 2024 AI use case inventory shows move toward internal chatbots

The agency reported 271 AI use cases in 2024, which it said represented a 66% increase from its reported 2023 total.

DOD announces completion of pilot to identify medical AI vulnerabilities

The Pentagon’s red teaming effort identified more than 800 “potential vulnerabilities and biases” in the use of large language models for clinical note summarization and for a medical advisory chatbot.

Transportation’s AI lead sees ‘collaboration with everybody’ at his agency

Meet Mike Horton, the acting chief AI officer at the Department of Transportation.

Agencies report over 1,700 AI use cases

While federal agencies finalized their artificial intelligence inventories, discrepancies in reporting risk mitigation persist. 

House AI Task Force recommends sector-specific regs in final report

The document aims to balance keeping the U.S. competitive in AI innovation and adoption while mitigating negative outcomes. 

DHS launches internal GenAI chatbot to leverage non-public data

Agency Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the tool, known as DHSChat, “will help men and women across DHS draft vital reports, summarize critical information, develop new software, streamline administrative tasks and much more.”

Forthcoming House AI report will call for incremental regulation

Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., said he hopes the House AI Task Force’s report will debut sometime in the coming week.

AI has high energy demands but could also speed up energy production, officials say

Artificial intelligence can help speed up the permitting process for new clean energy infrastructure to meet the energy needs of emerging technologies.

‘Team Human’ vs. AI: MIT expert issues warning on artificial general intelligence risks

Artificial general intelligence — smarter-than-human AI capable of performing virtually all tasks — risks spiraling out of human control, MIT professor and Future of Life Institute President Max Tegmark said.

DOD reveals first draft of $15B artificial intelligence contract

The Defense Department wants more companies in the fold for Advana, a multi-domain analytics and AI platform that DOD wants to further scale out.

Lawmaker wants FCC to create AI tool for identifying scams

The measure from Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah., would direct the FCC to develop an online platform that can assess submitted communications and then rate the likelihood that they are scam attempts.