On May 29, the News/Media Alliance submitted comments with the National Science Foundation and the Office of Science & Technology Policy regarding the Administration’s development of an updated version of the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan. The plan aims to protect the country’s leadership position in AI and focus on the Federal government’s role in AI R&D over the next three to five years. The comments expressed support for the Administration’s plans to update the National AI R&D Strategic Plan and encouraged the Administration to do so while guarding against the theft of American intellectual property and abusive Big Tech market practices. The comments build upon and reiterated the Alliance’s earlier comments regarding the Administration’s upcoming AI Action Plan, calling for respect for intellectual property, support for scalable global frameworks for AI transparency, and support for market competition. Particularly, the comments noted that intellectual property and technology are twin drivers that sustain American global dominance and advancing both should not be a zero-sum game, while transparency requirements can strengthen national security by mitigating against unauthorized and undetected siphoning of American intellectual property by foreign adversaries. Read the full comments here.
