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By SecureWorld News Team
Wed | Mar 20, 2019 | 7:09 AM PDT

What is Artificial Intelligence? 

What can AI do for you, for business, for the United States?

Those questions are so vast, it seems difficult to get your arms around any kind of potential answer.

Now a new U.S. government website seeks to capture and distill down some sort of vision for what AI could mean in different areas of life, including yours.

And for starters, the web address of AI.gov is definitely simple enough to remember.

5 ways to look at Artificial Intelligence 

The website, which is much more visually appealing than your typical government website, dives into five ways of slicing Artificial Intelligence:

  1. The Executive Order on AI — This looks at the order President Trump signed to prioritize and increase coordination on AI research and a recent summit on AI.
  2. AI for American Innovation — This looks at the sectors already benefiting from Artificial Intelligence and which government agencies are "key" in AI research, plus the IT infrastructure in use at labs like at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.government-computer-infrastructure

  3. AI for American Industry — This section is about business enablement. From FDA approval of AI breakthroughs in healthcare to autonomous vehicles and unmanned aircraft systems to financial services:

    "AI innovation can be hampered or driven overseas by overly restrictive government regulations. We will create a national climate where scientists and technologists successfully develop their new AI inventions here in the United States." 

  4. AI for the American Worker — We need more workers who can lead the way in R&D around Artificial Intelligence. This section looks at 10 agencies that are working on it:

    "Opportunities are provided at all levels of advanced training, including for undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career academic AI researchers."

  5. AI with American Values — This area of the website looks at efforts to create a trustworthy, robust, and safe approach to Artificial Intelligence. This includes cybersecurity:

    "The complexity of many AI systems creates important safety and security challenges that must be addressed to ensure that these systems are trustworthy. In particular, AI systems have some inherent cybersecurity risks because of the characteristics of how the technology is designed."

Check out the new government website about Artificial Intelligence for yourself: AI.gov

Artificial Intelligence: significant focus at SecureWorld Boston

If you're in the Northeast and fascinated by the possibilities of AI, catch the keynote by Steve Brown, Intel's former Futurist and Chief Evangelist. Or take his deep dive SecureWorld PLUS course that will help your organization "futurecast" and plan for the next 5-10 years of digital transformation. 

See details of the March 27-28 conference on our agenda page here. And watch this brief preview for an idea on what to expect from his course: 

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Photo credit: Carlos Jones, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy

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