White House Pushes Fed Agencies to Hire AI Chiefs

The White House Office of Management and Budget, or OMB has introduced guidelines mandating all U.S. federal agencies to appoint a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer. The agency also stated that agencies need to disclose their AI deployments.

It’s clear that the OMB hopes to take a proactive approach toward AI integration by emphasizing the need for federal agencies to adopt concrete safeguards by December 1, 2024. So what exactly is the overall aim of these guidelines?

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