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This Plan this 2019 Update to the National AI R&D Strategic Plan is, by design, solely concerned with addressing the R&D priorities associated with advancing AI technologies.

The process for creating this Plan began in August 2018, when the Administration directed the Select Committee on AI to refresh the 2016 National AI R&D Strategic Plan to account for significant recent advancements in AI and to ensure that federal R&D investments remain at the forefront of science and technology. The Select Committee then issued a Request for Information (RFI) to solicit input from the public on the current AI R&D Strategic Plan, to determine ways the strategy should be revised or improved. The responses to this RFI, as well as an independent agency review, informed the 2019 update to the Plan. The update reflects a continued commitment to the seven strategic priorities identified in the first Plan (2016), and identifies a new eighth strategy focused on public-private partnerships to generate technological breakthroughs in AI and to rapidly transition those breakthroughs into capabilities.The initiative has the following objective(s):To make long-term investments in AI research.To develop effective methods for human-AI collaboration.To understand and address the ethical, legal, and societal implications of AI.To ensure the safety and security of AI systems.To develop shared public datasets and environments for AI training and testing.To measure and evaluate AI technologies through standards and benchmarks;to better understand the national AI R&D workforce needs; and to expand public-private partnerships to accelerate advances in AI.

Select Committee on AI (SCAI)|National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)|Subcommittee on Networking & Information Technology Research & Development (NITRD)