{"id":95883,"date":"2019-09-06T21:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T04:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/secretary-perry-stands-up-office-for-artificial-intelligence-and-technology"},"modified":"2019-09-06T21:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T04:22:44","slug":"secretary-perry-stands-up-office-for-artificial-intelligence-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/secretary-perry-stands-up-office-for-artificial-intelligence-and-technology","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Perry Stands Up Office for Artificial Intelligence and Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.secretary-perry-stands-up-office-for-artificial-intelligence-and-technology2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/strong>-Today, <strong>U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry<\/strong> announced the establishment of the <strong>DOE Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office (AITO)<\/strong>. The Secretary has established the office to serve as the coordinating hub for the work being done across the DOE enterprise in Artificial Intelligence. This action has been taken as part of the President\u2019s call for a national AI strategy to ensure AI technologies are developed to positively impact the lives of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>DOE-fueled AI is already being used to strengthen our national security and cybersecurity, improve grid resilience, increase environmental sustainability, enable smarter cities, improve water resource management, as well as speed the discovery of new materials and compounds, and further the understanding, prediction, and treatment of disease. DOE\u2019s National Labs are home to four of the top ten fastest supercomputers in the world, and we\u2019re currently building three next-generation, exascale machines, which will be even faster and more AI-capable computers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world is in the midst of the Golden Age of AI, and DOE\u2019s world class scientific and computing capabilities will be critical to securing America\u2019s dominance in this field,\u201d said Secretary Perry. \u201cThis new office housed within the Department of Energy will concentrate our existing efforts while also facilitating partnerships and access to federal data, models and high performance computing resources for America\u2019s AI researchers. Its mission will be to elevate, accelerate and expand DOE\u2019s transformative work to accelerate America\u2019s progress in AI for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced the establishment of the DOE Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office (AITO). The Secretary has established the office to serve as the coordinating hub for the work being done across the DOE enterprise in Artificial Intelligence. This action has been taken as part of the President\u2019s call [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,6,44,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}