The US Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) established an AI Security and Safety Board and named 22 members, comprising tech agency executives and different specialists within the discipline, based on an April 26 press launch.

The members embody OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and the heads of main tech firms like NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

The board additionally includes Maryland Governor Wes Moore, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell and different specialists inside and with out the AI trade — together with crucial infrastructure operators, public officers, civil rights leaders, and teachers.

Defending crucial infrastructure

The board’s inaugural assembly is scheduled for Could. Its major accountability will likely be to advise the DHS on the protected and accountable deployment of AI whereas addressing any associated threats.

The initiative focuses on AI in relation to 16 crucial infrastructure sectors, together with the protection, vitality, agriculture, transportation, and web expertise sectors.

The trouble builds on the DHS’s 2024 Homeland Risk Evaluation, which discovered that AI might allow superior cyber assaults in opposition to US infrastructure. It additionally builds on the division’s Synthetic Intelligence Roadmap, which particulars its plans to make use of AI in homeland safety missions in a manner that protects people’ privateness, rights, and civil liberties.

The institution of the AI security board additionally follows the Biden administration’s October 2023 government order on AI security. That order directed Mayorkas to determine the board whereas additionally setting different necessities for the DHS and the broader US authorities.

US federal businesses are presently within the means of appointing chief AI officers and establishing AI governance boards.

The DHS can also be within the means of recruiting AI specialists in a “hiring dash.” The initiative will velocity the deployment of AI and machine studying applied sciences inside the DHS and assist the division handle felony exercise and homeland safety threats.

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