Artificial Intelligence

The National AI Institute for Exceptional Education, a five-year project funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education, is harnessing AI to help young children with special needs.

The city of Seattle has announced the release of its Generative Artificial Intelligence Policy, which aims to align with the executive order on AI that was signed last week by President Joe Biden.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced it is seeking participants to be part of a new consortium focused on developing evaluation methods for artificial intelligence systems.

Last Monday, President Biden issued an executive order on safe, secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence. Here’s what’s included, as well as the tech and cybersecurity industries’ response.

A free AI-powered tool from the Journalistic Learning Initiative and Playlab Education Inc. is designed to instill in middle and high school students high standards for interviewing, fact-checking and reporting.

University of Illinois professors have already seen suspicious and potentially dishonest behavior from students using artificial intelligence to write, but some are more worried about the long-term effects than others.

The latest funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and included Google’s AI investment arm. The money will go toward expanding Prepared’s workforce in engineering and other areas as it grows its paid offerings.

New draft policy from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget aims to offer guidance for AI governance structures that will help agencies to implement and apply AI technologies in a responsible way.

The Center on Reinventing Public Education found just two states have provided official guidance to schools about artificial intelligence so far, and states that delay or decline doing this might face more problems.

The gov tech giant has bought ARInspect, which sells an AI-backed platform for inspections of bridges, utilities and other public-sector assets and facilities. The move marks Tyler’s second AI buy in recent months.

Bay Area experts say the new guidelines and oversight promised in the recent presidential order will lend confidence to significant numbers of potential customers who have not yet embraced the technology.

Suma Nallapati, who was appointed to serve as CIO for the city and county of Denver earlier this fall, plans to take a human-centered approach to IT to help actualize the mayor’s vision for a vibrant region.

The White House unveiled a sweeping executive order that aims to minimize the risks of artificial intelligence while simultaneously maximizing its potential. AI policy experts have mixed views on the double-edged order.

The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) asks tech companies developing artificial intelligence tools for education to commit to equity and inclusion, transparency, privacy, and working with the educators.

Regulations around generative AI are rapidly evolving. This list will keep you up to date on what governments are doing to increase employee productivity and improve constituent services while minimizing risk.

Professors at Wilkes University, Kings College, the University of Scranton and others are exploring AI's potential to help students refine their writing, and to help multilingual learners and those with disabilities.

The Center for Emerging Artificial Intelligence Systems (CEAIS) at the University at Albany is a research initiative with IBM to study the next generation of AI and how supercomputing tech might improve its performance.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order to regulate artificial intelligence, but how are state and local governments handling it? Many are exploring how AI can enhance services, while others are temporarily banning its use.