US agency tasked with curbing risks of AI lacks funding to do the job
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US president Joe Biden's plan for containing the dangers of artificial intelligencealready risks being derailed by congressional bean counters.
A White House executive order on AI announced in October calls on the US to develop new standards for stress-testing AI systems to uncover their biases, hidden threats, and rogue tendencies. But the agency tasked with setting these standards, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), lacks the budget needed to complete that work independently by the July 26, 2024, deadline, according to several people with knowledge of the work.