Insider Q&A: Small federal agency crafts standards for making AI safe, secure and trustworthy

By FRANK BAJAK
AP Technology Writer

BOSTON (AP) — A little-known federal agency, The National Institute of Standards and Technology, was tapped by the Biden administration to set testing parameters for ensuring generative AI systems are safe, secure, trustworthy and socially responsible. The agency official leading those efforts, Iranian-born Elham Tabassi, has a small team and tight deadlines. But, she told The Associated Press in an interview, it’s not as if it’s starting from scratch. The AI Risk Management Framework it released a year ago was forged with extensive public comment and many months of study.