Ohio State joins federal consortium advising on AI security
The Ohio State University has been selected as a founding member of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), which will bring together AI creators and users, academics, government and industry researchers and other organizations in support of the development and deployment of safe and trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) in the United States.
The AISIC will provide guidance to the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute, formed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) through the U.S. Department of Commerce established.
“This appointment acknowledges the breadth and depth of Ohio State’s expertise in artificial intelligence,” said Peter Mohler, executive vice president of the Enterprise for Research, Innovation and Knowledge. “Across our 15 colleges, researchers are addressing critical solutions in the field, from all angles, including infrastructure, security, policy, workforce, education and ethics.”
The consortium will contribute to and inform actions outlined in President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, focused on developing guidelines for cybersecurity testing, capability evaluations, risk management, safety and security, and identifying content as generated by AI.
Mike Rayo, associate professor in the College of Engineering is the principal investigator for Ohio State on the consortium. “I look forward to working with the esteemed members of the consortium, providing valuable input for the NIST Artificial Intelligence Security Institute to craft guidance documents that will promote further innovation in artificial intelligence while setting an evaluation framework to reveal and address potential negative consequences.”
Other Ohio State investigators serving on consortium workgroups include: Esra Gules-Guctas (College of Public Affairs), Timothy Huerta (College of Medicine), Mahdi Khalili (College of Engineering), Zhiqiang Lin (College of Engineering), Dhabaleswar (DK) Panda (College of Engineering), Srinivasan Parthasarathy (College of Engineering), Amy Schmitz (College of Law), Huan Sun (College of Engineering), Aylin Yener (College of Engineering) and Xueru Zhang (College of Engineering).