NVIDIA Joins AI Safety Consortium

<p>NVIDIA has joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s new U&period;S&period; Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium as part of the company’s effort to advance safe&comma; secure and trustworthy AI&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>AISIC will work to create tools&comma; methodologies and standards to promote the safe and trustworthy development and deployment of AI&period; As a member&comma; NVIDIA will work with NIST — an agency of the U&period;S&period; Department of Commerce — and fellow consortium members to advance the consortium’s mandate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>NVIDIA’s participation builds on a record of working with governments&comma; researchers and industries of all sizes to help ensure AI is developed and deployed safely and responsibly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Through a broad range of development initiatives&comma; including NeMo Guardrails&comma; open-source software for ensuring large language model responses are accurate&comma; appropriate&comma; on topic and secure&comma; NVIDIA actively works to make AI safety a reality&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In 2023&comma; NVIDIA endorsed the Biden Administration’s voluntary AI safety commitments&period; Last month&comma; the company announced a &dollar;30 million contribution to the U&period;S&period; National Science Foundation’s National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource pilot program&comma; which aims to broaden access to the tools needed to power responsible AI discovery and innovation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Through the consortium&comma; NIST aims to facilitate knowledge sharing and advance applied research and evaluation activities to accelerate innovation in trustworthy AI&period; AISIC members&comma; which include more than 200 of the nation’s leading AI creators&comma; academics&comma; government and industry researchers&comma; as well as civil society organizations&comma; bring technical expertise in areas such as AI governance&comma; systems and development&comma; psychometrics and more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition to participating in working groups&comma; NVIDIA plans to leverage a range of computing resources and best practices for implementing AI risk-management frameworks and AI model transparency&comma; as well as several NVIDIA-developed&comma; open-source AI safety&comma; red-teaming and security tools&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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