{"id":1020,"date":"2023-05-16T22:16:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T22:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2023\/05\/16\/senate-hearings-see-a-clear-and-present-danger-from-ai-and-opportunities\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T22:16:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T22:16:09","slug":"senate-hearings-see-a-clear-and-present-danger-from-ai-and-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2023\/05\/16\/senate-hearings-see-a-clear-and-present-danger-from-ai-and-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate hearings see a clear and present danger from AI \u2014 and opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are vital national interests in advancing artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline public services and automate mundane tasks performed by government employees. But the government lacks in both IT talent and systems to support those efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal government as a whole continues to face barriers in hiring, managing, and retaining staff with advanced technical skills \u2014 the very skills needed to design, develop, deploy, and monitor AI systems,\u201d said Taka Ariga, chief data scientist at the US Government Accountability Office.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Ho, associate director for Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) at Stanford University, agreed, saying that by one estimate the federal government would need to hire about 40,000 IT workers to address cybersecurity issues posed by AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3696317\/senate-hearings-see-a-clear-and-present-danger-from-ai-and-opportunities.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are vital national interests in advancing artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline public services and automate mundane tasks performed by government employees. But the government lacks in both IT talent and systems to support those efforts. \u201cThe federal government as a whole continues to face barriers in hiring, managing, and retaining staff with advanced technical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}