Sen. Young’s biotech advisory commission urges NIST AI standards

A biotech advisory commission chaired by Sen. Todd Young (R-IN), a leading voice on AI policies in the Senate, has released much-anticipated recommendations for countering China including a call for congressional action on standards by the National Institute of Standards and Technology on the use of artificial intelligence.

“The United States is locked in a competition with China that will define the coming century. Biotechnology is the next phase in that competition” because it “is no longer constrained to the...