“The presence of artificial intelligence in the federal workforce is poised to expand, with officials emphasizing the human component behind automation and machine learning technologies.
Officials including Gil Alterovitz, the Veterans’ Affairs National Artificial Intelligence Institute director, and Martin Stanley, the branch chief of Strategic Technology at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, spoke during a Thursday panel and discussed digitization within their respective agencies…”
“’We’ve been working toward building pathways toward developing and assessing that AI knowledge,’ he said. ‘We’re working with a number of other agencies and really the idea there is to build that pipeline of talent with AI knowledge both from outside government [and] inside the government so that the result of that would be an agile and responsive federal workforce equipped with the necessary competencies for AI.’…”
“’There’s a number of different offices that are integrating in working across the space to ensure that we do trust…and we can enable trustworthy AI for the future and that the current applications and use cases fit that standard as well,’ he said.
Some of these AI use cases Alterovitz anticipates seeing in the VA are within veteran healthcare, namely medication and appointment support, as well as tailoring physical therapy exercises with wearable technology…” Read the full article here.
Source: Agencies Look To Expand Both Automation Tech and AI Workforce – By Alexandra Kelley, February 10, 2022. Nextgov.