NIST offers dates and details on implementing artificial intelligence executive order

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is working toward an Aug. 10 deadline for completing responsibilities laid out in President Trump's Feb. 11 Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence, with a request for information expected to be issued within days, according to a NIST official.

“We are looking to have that out either this week or the next,” said Elham Tabassi, acting chief of staff of NIST's Information Technology Laboratory. She was referring to an RFI with about 17 questions...