Software group: Technical standards efforts essential to AI face pressing global challenges

BSA-The Software Alliance describes an increasingly challenging international environment around standards development for artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies, in comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology that call for bolstering both government and private sector efforts in support of “voluntary, industry-driven standards.”

“BSA observes that, in the area of technical regulations and standards-setting, digital fragmentation has become a pervasive threat, undermining the cross-border technology ecosystem that has engendered economic opportunities at home and abroad,” BSA says in...