Mercatus Center ‘case study’ critiques OMB guidance on agency use of AI

The free-market Mercatus Center at George Mason University says Office of Management and Budget guidance on artificial intelligence uses in the federal government is unnecessarily heavy-handed and offers instead an approach that would empower lower-level officials to make “context-aware” decisions on AI technologies.

"While advertised as a light touch, what these (OMB) guidelines offer is a top-down, rules-bound approach to federal AI risk management,” according to the Sept. 19 report, “Lost in (Machine) Translation: A Case Study in Enabling...