“Leaders across the federal government are trying to understand and leverage artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to drive the future of work forward. But before we rush toward a future with AI, experts in the field cautioned the importance of setting the technological and cultural foundations to prepare for AI…”
“‘Since HHS is so large, we are at different stages of this journey of emerging technology,’ [Department of Health and Human Services Chief AI Officer Oki Mek] said. ‘The business owners [are] acquiring and building AI, buying AI products and services. We just want to make sure that we do it responsibly. … We want to make sure that we have this ecosystem of support because AI, machine learning — it’s a new, innovative, transformative domain. … The failure rate is going to be high. In even just IT projects, the failure rate is quite high. But with good, new emerging technology, it’s going to be lower.’
Mek and Navy Chief AI Officer Brett Vaughn also stressed that acquiring and preparing data to be ready for AI application is also a critical piece that agencies looking to adopt AI must work on.
‘Changing the way we treat data, with AI in mind, as one of those enablers is, I think, a really, really important thing,’ Vaughn said…” Read the full article here.
Source: Remember These Key Steps For Federal AI Adoption – By Melissa Harris, September 29, 2021. GovernmentCIO.
