In May 2024, the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology launched a new program called ARIA, Assessing and Impacts of AI. Its aim is to advance sociotechnical testing and evaluation of artificial intelligence by developing methods to quantify how a given system works within real-world contexts. Potential outputs include scalable guidelines, tools, methodologies and metrics. IAPP Editorial Director Jedidiah Bracy recently caught up with NIST Research Scientist and Principal Investigator for AI Bias Reva Schwartz to discuss the program, what it entails, how it will work and who will be involved.
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