DHS shutters influential AI advisory board

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is terminating the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board, the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council and other Department of Homeland Security advisory bodies, according to a March 13 Federal Register notice.

DHS’ AI advisory board, which included the heads of major tech and other companies, researchers, labor, civil rights and other civil society groups, played an instrumental role in crafting the department’s voluntary framework for “safe and secure” AI deployment by critical infrastructure, released...