Consumer Technology Assn. asks NIST to embrace self-assessments for AI safety

The Consumer Technology Association is urging the National Institute of Standards and Technology to allow those developing or deploying generative artificial intelligence systems to keep the results of potential safety audits private.

“Although audits are not per se undesirable and can be an effective tool for minimizing harmful bias, inflexible and costly audits, including those that require results to be published publicly or provided to government agencies, may be overly burdensome, costly, and ineffective in eliminating actual or perceived risks,”...