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Biden Signs Law Creating AI Workforce Training Program

President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that creates a training program for federal employees buying and managing AI technology. Introduced by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Gary Peters, D-Mich., and ranking member Rob Portman, R-Ohio, the Artificial Intelligence…

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Training for the Acquisition Workforce Act (S-2551) is supposed to help federal employees better understand ethical and national security risks associated with AI. The new program will “train our procurement professionals about the ins and outs of AI so they can discern which AI systems are useful to the government and which are not,” said Portman.