White House sets policies for federal AI use

WASHINGTON – “Concrete safeguards” for government use of artificial intelligence were announced by the White House Thursday, as it vowed they would serve as a model for “global action.”
“When government agencies use AI tools, we will now require them to verify that those tools do not endanger the rights and safety of the American people,” Vice President Kamala Harris said as she briefed reporters on the new rules laid out by the Office of Management and Budget.
She gave the example of a Veterans Administration hospital that uses AI for medical diagnostics, saying it would need to first…