Biden’s AI Standards Team: Five Officials You Need to Know

A team of lawyers, engineers, and national security specialists are leading the Commerce Department’s push to craft guardrails for training and deploying artificial intelligence in a broad swath of industries.

President Joe Biden tasked the team last October with developing techniques to identify AI-generated images, determining what data should be used to train algorithms, and preventing China from accessing the building blocks of the technology. They’re also working with foreign governments and Congress to coordinate their approaches to AI.

The results of their work are meant to serve as a model for US companies, state and local governments, and federal ...