ANSI says partnership model is essential to emerging tech standards development

The American National Standards Institute is urging flexibility and reliance on a private-sector-led approach as the Biden administration implements a national standards strategy with implications for development of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.

“We recommend as an overarching approach that any policies which may be considered in response to the [National Standards Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technology] should be principles-based and not prescriptive in nature – informing industry-led standardization efforts that are fit for purpose and able to adapt...