“The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will pilot a program to assess the competencies of AI practitioners to ensure that the AI workforce at the VA is knowledgeable and capable of producing trustworthy results with the technology, according to Gil Alterovitz, director of artificial intelligence at VA.”
“’Building the AI workforce is really one of the important areas toward facilitating trustworthy AI because you need people with AI expertise to be able to determine and understand if the AI under the hood sort of structure is actually trustworthy,’ Alterovitz said during an ATARC event on May 13.”
“Alterovitz said the AI workforce pilot is being executed “to examine certifying of an AI practitioner, researcher, and developer of knowledge.” As the number of AI jobs grows, Alterovitz stressed that assessing AI workforce competencies and having a strong AI workforce is crucial…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA to Pilot AI Workforce Competency Program — By Grace Dille, May 14, 2021. MeriTalk.
