A congressionally mandated panel of technology experts has issued its first set of recommendations for the government, including doubling the amount of money spent on artificial intelligence outside the defense department and elevating a key Pentagon office to report directly to the Secretary of Defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Created by the National Defense Authorization Act in 2018, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence<\/a> is tasked with<\/a> reviewing \u201cadvances in artificial intelligence, related machine learning developments, and associated technologies,\u201d for the express purpose of addressing \u201cthe national and economic security needs of the United States, including economic risk, and any other associated issues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The commission issued an initial report in November, at the time pledging to slowly roll out its actual policy recommendations over the course of the next year. Today\u2019s report represents the first of those conclusions \u2014 43 of them in fact, tied to legislative language that can easily be inserted by Congress during the fiscal year 2021 budget process.<\/p>\n\n\n\t