MITRE recently opened its new AI Assurance and Discovery Lab, aimed at discovering and mitigating critical risks in AI-enabled systems that need to operate in complex, uncertain and high-stakes environments.
“Government use of AI will have consequential impacts on the nation and world, in areas such as efficient transportation, effective healthcare, and strengthened national security,” said Charles Clancy, MITRE senior vice president and chief technology officer. “This lab will demonstrate a repeatable engineering approach and infrastructure that could serve as a blueprint for a national network of AI assurance facilities.”
MITRE defines AI assurance as “a process for discovering, assessing, and managing risk throughout the lifecycle of an AI-enabled system so that it operates effectively to the benefit of its stakeholders and end users,” the company said.
Government agencies can also use the lab to explore requirements development for new AI-enabled systems, create proposed risk mitigation plans and develop long-term AI assurance strategies.
“For federal agencies and private companies, this new lab delivers an objective, independent analysis to complement and validate their own testing and evaluation of AI-enabled systems, helping establish confidence for end users,” said Cedric Sims, MITRE senior vice president.
Members of Virginia’s U.S. congressional delegation joined MITRE at the lab opening, with Sen. Mark Warner calling it “an exciting development in the most fertile frontier of technological progress.”