ORCAA is proud to be part of the U.S. AI Safety Institute, which launched today. The Institute, led by NIST and supported by over 200 partner organizations, aims to set standards and develop tools to mitigate the risks and harness the immense potential of AI.

This fall, ORCAA and global law firm DLA Piper co-hosted a conference on the use of BISG and other race-inference methods in fairness testing for algorithms. It was exciting to convene a diverse mix of practitioners, policymakers, and researchers around this important topic. We learned a lot and are happy to share a summary paper from the day.

ORCAA + Octogram’s INFER offering, which includes fairness testing and related services for insurance industry clients, is highlighted in the feature story in Auto Insurance Report’s December issue.

CEO Cathy O’Neil spoke at NIST last week about identifying and measuring algorithmic risk. Her talk was part of a workshop supporting NIST’s efforts to operationalize their AI Risk Management Framework. The Northwestern Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI), which co-hosted the workshop, reported on the day.

Cathy O’Neil will join Senator Chuck Schumer’s AI Insight Forum on November 1. Click to see her remarks on “Dealing with High Impact AI”.

Voluntary safety commitments by major AI companies, recently announced by the White House, are a start. But they are not enough to ensure these technologies will not harm people. Jacob Appel spoke to WIRED’s Khari Johnson about why.

Axios spoke to ORCAA’s Chief Strategist Jacob Appel in reporting on NYC LL144, now in effect.

NBC News spoke to Cathy O’Neil as part of their reporting on New York City Local Law 144, which came into effect July 5. The law requires that AI tools used in hiring be subject to annual bias audits.