ITI: AI Executive Order Can Advance Safe and Secure AI With Industry Collaboration
WASHINGTON – Today, global tech trade association ITI issued the following statement from its Executive Vice President of Policy Rob Strayer in response to President Biden’s Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence:
“The tech industry is committed to developing and deploying safe and responsible AI. We appreciate the Biden Administration’s thorough approach in considering how to help this transformative technology flourish while mitigating risk. As we review today’s extensive Executive Order, we are encouraged to see a whole-of-government approach to AI policy, steps to harness innovation, commitments to working with international partners, and a call to pass comprehensive federal privacy legislation to address privacy-related AI risks.
“To successfully implement this significant measure, we urge the administration to work with its global partners and industry to advance a common vision of safe and secure AI, leveraging a risk-based approach to address potential harms while also realizing AI’s incredible potential. Agencies must prioritize appropriate resources for the activities needed to operationalize these new AI policies, while managing an increasingly complex procurement environment without suppressing innovation. ITI looks forward to continuing to work with the administration to implement a policy framework that advances AI in a way that benefits everyone.”
ITI is actively engaged in AI policy around the world. ITI’s Global Policy Principles for Enabling Transparency of AI Systems (opens in a new tab) underscore that transparency is a critical part of developing accountable and trustworthy AI systems and avoiding unintended outcomes or other harmful impacts. ITI’s comprehensive Global AI Policy Recommendations (opens in a new tab) are a guide for governments around the world as they consider how to approach the establishment of AI policy frameworks, and emphasize the importance of private and public sector collaboration. ITI’s Executive Vice President of Policy Rob Strayer testified before the U.S. Senate (opens in a new tab) for the hearing, The Need for Transparency in Artificial Intelligence outlining how Congress to support a pro-innovation agenda that harnesses AI’s potential and mitigates risk. ITI’s affiliated standards development organization INCITS (opens in a new tab) leads and convenes the U.S. standardization program on AI (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42), which can be a voluntary method for companies to measure, assess, and take steps to ensure its safe and responsible deployment.