Texas A&M Joins the New Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC)

Texas A&M University will join more than 200 major corporations, academic institutions, nonprofit groups, and federal agencies in a national effort to improve the safety and reliability of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Division of Research announced today. The U.S. Department of Commerce, through its National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), selected Texas A&M as an initial member of the new Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC). Members include tech giants Amazon, Apple, Adobe, Intel, Google Meta, and Microsoft, as well as OpenAI (creator of ChatGPT); research institutes such as The Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University; and the nonprofit Linux Foundation. ASIC chooses its members based on their ability to deliver the research and development required to harness the potential of AI, mitigate its most serious risks, protect the public and our planet, reduce market uncertainties and encourage innovations. Dr. Nick Duffield, director of the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS) and holder of the Royce E. Wisenbaker Professorship I in the Department of Electrical and computer Engineering, will lead the Texas A&M team, which includes researchers from the College of Engineering, the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Public Health, the School of Architecture, TAMIDS, the Global Cyber Research Institute, High-Performance Research Computing and the Center for Applied Technology.