The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) was an independent commission of the

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established in 2018 to make recommendations to the President and Congress to "advance the development of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and associated technologies to comprehensively address the national security and defense needs of the United States". It issued its final report in March 2021, saying that the U.S. is not sufficiently prepared to defend or compete against

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in the AI era.

Members

Here is a list of members from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence: *

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(Chair), former CEO of

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Robert Work Robert Orton Work (born January 17, 1953) is an American national security professional who served as the 32nd United States Deputy Secretary of Defense for both the Obama and Trump administrations from 2014 to 2017. Prior to that, Work was the U ...

(Vice Chair), former

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, former Commissioner of the

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, CEO of

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* Jose-Marie Griffiths, President of

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* William Hurd, former U.S. Representative from Texas * Katharina McFarland, former

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, Director of the

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Ash Carter Ashton Baldwin Carter (September 24, 1954 – October 24, 2022) was an American government official and academic who served as the 25th United States Secretary of Defense from February 2015 to January 2017. He later served as director of the Be ...

, former

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Gilman Louie Gilman Louie (born 1960) is an American technology venture capitalist who got his start as a video game designer and then co-founded and ran the CIA venture capital fund In-Q-Tel. With his company Nexa Corporation he designed and developed multipl ...

, partner at Alsop Louie Partners *

Andy Jassy Andrew R. Jassy (born January 13, 1968) is an American business executive who is the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Amazon. Before being appointed by Jeff Bezos and the Amazon board during the fourth quarter of 2020, Jassy served ...

, CEO of

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(AWS) *

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, CEO of Oracle * Steve Chien, technical fellow at

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(JPL) *

Adam Grant Adam M. Grant (born August 13, 1981) is an American popular science author, and professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology. Early life and education Grant was born in the township ...

, organizational psychologist and professor at the

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, professor of computer science at

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Terah Lyons Terah Lyons is known for her expertise in the field of artificial intelligence and technology policy. Lyons was the executive director of the Partnership on AI and was a policy advisor to the United States Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith in Pr ...

, founding executive director of the

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* Andrew Moore, dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University *

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, former

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, co-director of the

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* Danny Toler, former CIO of the

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Recommendations

The report's recommendations include: * dramatically increasing non-defense federal spending on AI research and development, doubling every year from $2 billion in 2022, to $32 billion in 2026. That would bring it up to a level similar to spending on biomedical research * creation of a Digital Corps to bring skilled tech workers into government * founding of a Digital

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: an accredited university providing subsidized education in exchange for a commitment to work for a time in government *include civil rights and civil liberty reports for new AI systems or major updates to existing systems * expanding allocations of employment-based

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s, and giving them to every AI PhD graduate from an accredited U.S. university * reforming the acquisition management system

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to make it faster and easier to introduce new technologies.

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.nscai.gov/ United States national commissions Organizations established in 2018 Artificial intelligence