WASHINGTON (October 28, 2024) – In a memo from the White House last week, the Biden administration is urging government agencies, namely the Pentagon and other intelligence agencies, to adopt artificial intelligence.
National security advisor Jake Sullivan addressed the crowd noting, “This is our nation’s first ever strategy for harnessing the power and managing the risks of AI to advance our national security.”
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Aram Gavoor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Professorial Lecturer in Law; Professor (by courtesy), Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration at the George Washington University Law School. Dean Gavoor is an internationally recognized scholar in national security, American administrative law, artificial intelligence, and federal courts. He previously served as Senior Counsel for National Security in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Additionally, Dean Aram Gavoor was part of a team selected to lead a series of crucial training sessions for thousands of federal government executive branch policymakers and senior leaders in September and October 2024 as part of the General Services Administration’s AI Community of Practice (“AI COP”).
Susan Ariel Aaronson, Research Professor; Director, Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub at GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Aaronson is an expert in data governance, AI, XR, and other data driven technologies. She is co-principal investigator with the NSF-NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology Institute for Trustworth AI in Law & Society, TRAILS, where she leads research on data and AI governance.
She writes on AI overcapacity, and AI and national security.
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