The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently awarded Carnegie Mellon University a $6 million Measurement Science and Engineering Research Program grant to establish the CMU/NIST AI Measurement Science & Engineering Cooperative Research Center (AIMSEC).
The grant program supports collaborative research that is aligned with NIST’s research objectives with the goal of developing a diverse, world-class pool of scientists and engineers.
Using stakeholder partnerships, the center will research and develop artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, tooling, metrics, and evaluation procedures, and will development processes and best practices.
“Artificial intelligence is the defining technology of our generation, and at the Commerce Department we are committed to working with America’s world-class higher education institutions, like Carnegie Mellon University, to advance safe, secure and trustworthy development of AI,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said.
AIMSEC will be housed at CMU’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy and will coordinate multiple initiatives including the National Center for Calibrated Trust, Measurement and Evaluation at the Software Engineering Institute, helping the U.S. military assess the trustworthiness of AI systems; and the Artificial Intelligence Security Incident Response Team, monitoring and studying vulnerabilities related to advances in AI and machine learning.