NIST AI Engagement

To foster collaboration and develop a shared understanding of what constitutes trustworthy AI, and to bolster scientific underpinning of how to assess and assure trustworthiness of AI systems, NIST organizes workshops bringing together government, industry, academia, and other stakeholders from the U.S. and around the world. The workshops' focus is on advancing the development of AI standards, guidelines, and related tools.

Recent Workshops & Events 

• ARIA Workshop | November 12, 2024 | Washington, D.C. (Hybrid) 

  NIST convened an in-person workshop on November 12, 2024, in Washington, D.C., to provide more detail about its new ARIA (Assessing Risks and Impacts of AI) program. Participants learned about ARIA’s experimentation environment and NIST’s approach to evaluation-driven research. ARIA (Assessing Risks and Impacts of AI) is a NIST AI Innovation Lab program to gather evidence about AI’s risks to people and society as part of advancing the science and practice of AI risk measurement. Learn more. 

Past Workshops & Events

• Unleashing AI Innovation, Enabling Trust was held on September 24-25, 2024. 
• Secure Software Development Framework for Generative AI and for Dual Use Foundation Models Virtual Workshop was held on January 17, 2024
• Workshop on Collaboration to Enable Safe and Trustworthy AI was held November 17, 2023
• Launching Publication of the AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) 1.0  was held January 26, 2023
• Building the NIST AI Risk Management Framework: Workshop #3  was held October 18-19, 2022 
• Artificial Intelligence and the Economy Conference  was held April 27, 2022
• Two-part Workshop on AI Risk Management Framework – and on Bias in AI was held March 29-31, 2022.
• Kicking off NIST AI Risk Management Framework: Workshop #1 was held October 19-21, 2021.
• A workshop on AI Measurement and Evaluation was held June 15-17, 2021.
• National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) workshop on Assessing and Improving AI Trustworthiness: Current Contexts, Potential Paths was held on March 3-4, 2021.
• A workshop on Explainable AI was held January 26-28, 2021.  Workshop summary. 
• A workshop on Bias in AI was held on August 18, 2020.  A draft report which includes information about discussions during the workshop has been published. A recording of this event can be found on the event page. The final report Towards a Standard for Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence (SP 1270) was published in March 2022. 
• A kickoff AI Workshop, Exploring AI Trustworthiness, took place on August 6, 2020. A recording of the workshop can be found on the event page.

Ways to Engage

NIST relies on and encourages robust interactions with industry, universities, nonprofits, and other government agencies in driving and carrying out its AI agenda. There are multiple ways to engage with NIST, including:

• Consortium: NIST has established the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (USAISI) and a Consortium to promote development and responsible use of safe and trustworthy AI. The Consortium will advance new measurement science – enabling the identification of proven, scalable, and interoperable techniques and metrics. 
• Requests for Information (RFIs): NIST sometimes uses formal RFIs to inform the public about its AI activities and gain insights into specific AI issues. For example, an RFI was issued to help develop the AI Risk Management Framework. 
• Share  your input on NIST draft reports: NIST counts on stakeholders to review drafts of reports on a variety of AI issues. Drafts typically are prepared based on inputs from private and public sector individuals and organizations and then posted for broader  public review on NIST’s AI website and via email alerts. Public comments help to improve these documents. Sign up for AI-related emails here.
• Workshops: NIST convenes single day, multi-day, and multi-week sessions with experts from diverse disciplines to tackle key questions in the field of trustworthy and responsible AI and related topics. Workshops are often hybrid and readily accessible through the use of online discussion forums.
• Student Programs: NIST offers a range of opportunities for students to engage with NIST on AI-related work. That includes the Professional Research Experience Program (PREP), which provides valuable laboratory experience and financial assistance to undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students.

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